Description
Clinical reasoning is the complex thinking and decision-making used to come to a diagnosis and management plan. It's a core competency of clinical practice – but because it involves many elements and unconscious processes, it's both difficult to learn and teach.Clinical Reasoning in the Health Professions, Fifth Edition provides the concepts and frameworks healthcare professionals need to be able to reason effectively, make sound and defensible clinical decisions, and learn from experience as they develop from student to practitioner.Edited by leading experts in the field from Australia and the US, this fifth edition presents the latest understandings and evidence around clinical reasoning in clinical practice, and how can it be taught and assessed. It's ideal for both undergraduate and post-graduate health students as well as academic and clinical health educators.- Presents a new understanding of clinical reasoning in the circumstances confronting healthcare systems today- Covers the future of healthcare and social justice- Provides the latest theories on teaching, learning and assessing clinical reasoning - ideal for educators and researchers- Easy to read with figures, tables and chapter summaries- Case studies integrate theory with practice- Examines clinical reasoning as a core competency- Includes team-based care/teaming and the role of shared decision making- New themes- New ways of teaching and assessment- New practical approaches to application of theory and developing a curriculum
Table of Contents
PART 1 The Future of Healthcare: The Big Picture of Clinical Decision Making1. The Future of Healthcare2. Contexts of Clinical Reasoning: Navigating a World of Increasing ComplexityPART 2 Understanding Clinical Reasoning3. Clinical Reasoning: Challenges of Interpretation and Practice in the Current Era4. Re-interpreting Clinical Reasoning: a Model of Encultured Decision-making Practice Capabilities5. Multiple Spaces of Engagement and Influence in Clinical Decision Making6. A Critical Social Sciences Model for Practice7. The Development of Clinical Reasoning Expertise8. The Language of Clinical Reasoning9. Expertise and Clinical Reasoning10. Empowerment and Clinical ReasoningPART 3 The Context of Emerging Clinical Reasoning11. Changing Demographic and Cultural Dimensions of Populations: Implications forHealthcare and Decision Making12. Multiple Contexts of Healthcare13. Next-generation Clinical Practice Guidelines14. Evidence-based Practice and Clinical Reasoning: How Are the Two Related?15. Collaborative Decision Making in Liquid Times16. A Model for Clinical Ethics Reasoning in Adult and Paediatric Medicine17. Cultivating Clinical Reasoning: the Need for the Health Humanities18. Shared Decision Making in Practice19. Using Telehealth in Clinical Education: Opportunities, Challenges and ConsiderationsPART 4 Clinical Reasoning and the Professions20. Methods in the Study of Clinical Reasoning21. Clinical Reasoning and Biomedical Knowledge Implications for Teaching22. Clinical Reasoning in Medicine23. Clinical Reasoning in Nursing24. Clinical Reasoning in Physiotherapy25. Clinical Reasoning in Dentistry26. Clinical Reasoning in Occupational Therapy27. Clinical Decision Making in Paramedicine28. Decision Making and Clinical Reasoning in Optometry29. Clinical Reasoning in Dietetics30. Clinical Reasoning in Pharmacy31. Speech Pathology: Facilitating Clinical Reasoning32. Clinical Decision Making Across Orthodox and Complementary Medicine FieldsPART 5 Pedagogy33. Towards a Clinical Education Pedagogy for Developing Clinical Reasoning Capability34. Leading a Faculty in Implementing Clinical Reasoning35. Developing a Curriculum on Clinical Reasoning36. Teaching Clinical Reasoning to Preclinical Medical Students37. Teaching Clinical Reasoning in Nursing Education38. Interprofessional Programmes to Develop Clinical Reasoning39. Teaching Clinical Reasoning in Paramedicine40. Developing Clinical Reasoning Capability41. Learning to Communicate Clinical Reasoning42. Learning to Research Clinical Reasoning43. Clinical Decision Making, Culture and Health44. Learning About Factors Influencing Clinical Decision Making45. Peer Learning to Develop Clinical Reasoning Abilities46. Assessing Clinical Reasoning in Medicine47. Clinical Reasoning Education: Looking to the Future
