Question

PLEASE Identify 20 patient care skills you will perform when caring for patients. Identify which of these skills require clinical judgment. Explain how you would use your clinical judgment while performing each skill.

Answer 1

1. While caring forthe patients thee nurse should have some skills. They are;

• Empathy
• compassion
• ability to solve problems
• decision-making skills at the right time
• communication
• sympathetic
• honest
• teamwork
• punctuality
• professionalism
• over-all attitude
• behaviour
• flexibility;some patients may change our plans so,we have to adapt flexibility.
• time-management
• confidence
• receptive attitude;handle criticism and enact change when needed.
• patience
• attentiveness
• passion
• multitasking ability

2.The skills that require clinical judgement;

• ability to solve problems
• decision making skills
• coomunicaion
• flexibility
• multitasking ability
• time management
• professionlaim
• empathy and sympathy

clinical judgment require in eachand every actions that require a good plan of nursing care.

3. clinical judgment is a process by which nurse decides data to be collected,makes interpretation of data,arriving at a nursing diagnosis,and identifies appropriate nursing actions.the key elements include;holistic assessment,critical thinking, clinical reasoning,practical wisdom, intuition and reflcetion.For performing each skills the nurse should these above elemnts.Whatever problems or issues occur, the nurse would follow mainly the critics thinking process.

Firstly, the nurse should pay attention to the condition of the patient. For this the patient should be empathetic and sympathetic. Then assess what he is experiencing. for this listen and observe carefully.So, she need good communication and decision-making skills.Gather information regarding the problem.So, professionalism should be maintained.use your reasoning abilities to apply critical thinking to confirm or exclude certain hypotheses .finally you decide the best decision. So, decision making,time management, multitasking ability