Strategies, Techniques and Approaches to Thinking : Case Studies in Clinical Nursing

This text presents realistic case studies and patient care scenarios encountered in the clinical setting to facilitate the development of critical thinking skills. Using a straightforward, readable style, it builds a fundamental knowledge base and reinforces nursing concepts and principles. Guiding readers through the application, analysis, and synthesis of knowledge in clinical situations, it also integrates learned knowledge with the nursing process tradition and applies it to critical thinking. Section One reinforces fundamental concepts and principles pertinent to nursing practice and demonstrates how learned knowledge is applied to patient care situations. Section Two helps readers prioritize and make sound clinical decisions. Section Three presents clinical situations using an intershift report format. Section Four provides answers for selected case studies. A CD-ROM, bound in the book, includes test questions and other activities to give students additional practice in thinking critically.de Castillo, Sandra Luz Martinez is the author of 'Strategies, Techniques and Approaches to Thinking : Case Studies in Clinical Nursing', published 2005 under ISBN 9781416025764 and ISBN 1416025766.