Professional Decision Making Flashcards
1
Q
For clinical decision making;
A) What are the steps
B) What is framing
C) What is intended outcome
A
A)
- Identify the real or potential drug related problem
- Determine the desired therapeutic outcome
- Determine the therapeutic alternatives
- Design an optimal pharmaco-therapeutic plan
- Identify monitoring parameters for the outcome
- Educate the patient
- Implement the pharmaco-therapeutic plan
B)
- Emphasises quality of clinical care over costs and profits
C)
- Maximise the therapeutic impact on the patient’s health
2
Q
For ethical decision making;
A) What are the steps
B) What is framing
C) What is intended outcome
A
A)
- Gather relevant facts from the law, code of ethics and professional guidelines
- Prioritise and ascribe values of the various parties involved
- Generate options and evaluate their potential consequences
- Choose a plan
B)
- Emphasises moral behaviour over costs, profits and blind adherence to laws and regulations
C)
- Make the most morally defensible choice
3
Q
For legal decision making;
A) What are the steps
B) What is framing
C) What is intended outcome
A
A)
- Identify and define the legal issue
- Undertake legal research on relevant laws and policies
- Apply and act in accordance with laws and policies
B)
- Emphasises adherence to laws and statues
C)
- Make the most legally defensible choice
4
Q
What are the SEVEN steps for decision making process?
A
- Identify the problem
- Get the facts of the case
- Consider the different perspectives of the case
- Identify any conflicts
- Consider the law and professional guidelines/codes and expert knowledge (legal, clinic and ethical aspects)
- Make a decision
- Be prepared to defend decision
5
Q
What does Toulmin’s Argumentation Pattern (TAP) consist of?
argumentation describes the complex processes involved in constructing and coordinating the evidence to produce an argument that articulates either the support or rejection of a decision
A
Defines the main components of an argument
- Claims (the conclusion, proposition or assertion)
- Data (evidence that supports the claim)
- Warrants (logic that links the relationship between the claim and the data)
- Backings (definitions, law, proof, or statistics which is a guarantee for the claim or assumptions to support the warrants)
- Qualifiers/reservations (conditions under which the claim is true/not true)
- Rebuttals (statements which refute alternative or opposing claims, data and warrants)
6
Q
How to navigate and construct arguments?
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