WEEK 3- CLINICAL REASONING, STANDARD

Question 1

CONSIDER THE PATIENT SITUATION

Answer 1

Describe or list facts, contexts, objects or people.

Question 2

COLLECT CUES/INFORMATION

Answer 2

• Review information: e.g handover reports, patient history, charts
• Gather new information: e.g undertake patient assessment
• Recall knowledge: e.g physiology, contexts of care, ethics, law.

Question 3

PROCESS INFORMATION

Answer 3

• Interpret: analyse data, understand the signs and symptoms
• discrimination: narrow it to relevant to irrelevant.
• Relate: discover patters; cluster cues information by identify relationships between them.
• infer: make decisions that follows logically by interpreting subjective and objective cues.
• match: match the current situation to a past situation from a different patient (usually an expert does this)
• predict: predict the outcomes (usually an expert does this)