NURS2320 — Clinical Reasoning in Nursing
NURS 2320 - Clinical Reasoning in Nursing NURS 2320 - Clinical Reasoning in Nursing Hours/Week: Lecture 1.5 Lab 0.5 Course Description: This course guides entry-level nursing students in the development of clinical judgement, which is essential to providing safe and appropriate patient care. It also provides students with opportunities to learn and apply the clinical reasoning and critical thinking skills necessary to make appropriate clinical judgments. This course focuses on the development of cognitive skills and test-taking strategies. Course activities will employ a variety of models to explore the competencies of clinical reasoning and Socratic questioning as tools in forming clinical judgement. Information and skills addressed in this course are the foundational thought processes (process of developing clinical judgment) carried through all future nursing courses and are essential skills for all practicing nurses. There will be opportunities to apply course knowledge and clinical reasoning skills to a variety of patient care scenarios. Full acceptance into the Nursing Program is required. MnTC Goals none Major Content Theoretical Foundations of Clinical Judgement Learning to think Socratic questioning Components of Reasoning moving to or leading to Clinical Judgement - (Moving from clinical reasoning to clinical judgement) Clinical Judgement Measurement Models Nursing Process Cognitive Skills and Competencies of Clinical Judgement Translating clinical reasoning to test
Prerequisites: BIOL1020, CHEM1020, ENGL1020, ENGL1021, PSYC1041