Clinical Reasoning in the Health Professions by Higgs, Joy; Jensen, Gail M.; Loftus, Stephen;

Long description:

Clinical reasoning lies at the core of health care practice and education. Clinical Reasoning in the Health Professions, therefore, occupies a central place in the education of health professionals, the enhancement of professional decision making of individuals and groups of practitioners with their clients, and research into optimal practice reasoning.

Key themes presented:

• Clinical reasoning as a composite of encultured capabilities
• Clinical reasoning embedded within situated practice including the wider socio-economic and political contexts, the practitioner's and the client's contexts, and shared goals such as promoting health communities
• The importance of narratives, language and culture in clinical decision making
• Changing reasoning practices linked to increasing autonomy of practitioners working without the requirement of medical referrals
• Clinical reasoning as an increasingly team-based practice, including shared decision making with clients
• The need for sound strategies and tools to facilitate the expanding collaborations in health care across disciplines and with clients and carers
• Advanced education approaches promoting expansion and enhancement of reasoning strategies
• The importance of building good practices for learning clinical reasoning into curricula and into students' own practice development approaches
• Strengthening links between orthodox and complementary medicine reasoning practices

New to this edition:

• All chapters updated and 20 new chapters added
• Concrete examples, cases and vignettes were added to bring discussions to life for the reader
• Reflection points strategically placed to assist readers to extend their insights and build learning from their own practical experiences and theoretical knowledge
• Devices of particular value to reflective practitioners and educators.

This is a book for teachers and learners, practitioners, practice leaders, researchers and curriculum managers. Indeed, it is a valuable resource for educators seeking to ground their teaching practices in educational theory, sound knowledge of clinical reasoning and practice-based evidence, and researchers seeking to expand their research horizons.

All chapters updated and 20 new chapters added

Concrete examples, cases and vignettes were added to bring discussions to life for the reader

Reflection points strategically placed to assist readers to extend their insights and build learning from their own practical experiences and theoretical knowledge

Devices of particular value to reflective practitioners and educators.

Table of Contents:

Section 1 Understanding clinical reasoning

1. Clinical reasoning: Challenges of interpretation and practice in the 21st century
2. Re-interpreting clinical reasoning: A model of encultured decision making practice capabilities
3. Multiple spaces of choice, engagement and influence in clinical decision making
4. Clinical reasoning and models of practice
5. The development of clinical reasoning expertise
6. Expertise and clinical reasoning

Section 2 The changing context of clinical reasoning and practice

7. The context of clinical reasoning across the health professions in the 21st century
8. Changing demographic and cultural dimensions of populations: Implications for healthcare and decision making
9. Clinical thinking, client expectations and patient-centred care
10. Next generation clinical practice guidelines
11. Action and narrative: Two dynamics of clinical reasoning
12. The language of clinical reasoning
13. Evidence-based practice and clinical reasoning: In tension, tandem or two sides of the same coin?
14. Methods in the study of clinical reasoning

Section 3 Collaborative and transdisciplinary reasoning

15. Collaborative decision making in liquid times
16. Ethical reasoning
17. Shared decision making in practice
18. Using decision aids to involve clients in clinical decision making
19. Clinical decision making, social justice and client empowerment
20. Clinical decision making across orthodox and complementary medicine fields

Section 4 Clinical reasoning and the professions

21. Clinical reasoning in medicine
22. Clinical reasoning in nursing
23. Clinical reasoning in physiotherapy
24. Clinical reasoning in dentistry
25. Clinical reasoning in occupational therapy
26. Clinical decision making in emergency medicine
27. Clinical decision making in paramedicine
28. Clinical decision making in optometry
29. Clinical reasoning in dietetics
30. Clinical reasoning in pharmacy

Section 5 Teaching clinical reasoning

31. Pedagogies for teaching and learning clinical reasoning
32. Teaching clinical reasoning in medical education courses
33. Teaching clinical reasoning in nursing education
34. Speech-language pathology students: Learning clinical reasoning
35. Clinical reasoning and biomedical knowledge: Implications for teaching
36. Cultivating a thinking surgeon, using a Clinical Thinking Pathway as a learning and assessment process: ten years on
37. Interprofessional programs to develop clinical reasoning
38. Assessing clinical reasoning

Section 6 Learning clinical reasoning+

39. Learning to communicate clinical reasoning
40. Developing clinical reasoning capability
41. Remediating learning and performance of clinical reasoning in medicine
42. Learning about factors influencing clinical decision making
43. Learning reasoning using simulation
44. Learning to use evidence to support decision making
45. Learning to research clinical reasoning
46. Learning clinical reasoning across cultural contexts
47. Peer learning to develop clinical reasoning abilities