Question

Using the Levett-Jones et al. (2010) article and additional evidence based nursing literature discuss the importance of clinical reasoning in relation to preventing patient deterioration and maintaining safe nursing practice.

Answer 1

• Clinical reasoning is often considered the most important aspect of a clinicians skill set because it has the power to determine the outcome of patient care. poor clinical reasoning skills often result in a failure to deliver accurate or satisfactory health care.
• clinical reasoning is best described as the thin line between a patients death or deteriorating health status and recovery. nurses or clinicians with poor clinical reasoning placr a patient health condition at risk of deterioration and in a lot of cases, death
• the benefits of having sound clinical reasoning include making timely diagnoses, making prompt life saving treatment plans, avoiding unnecessary investigations which reduces cost for the patient and ultimately improving the patient's health conditions
• recognizing patient deterioration was: assessing the patient, knowing the patient, education, environmental factors,