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NURS 2320 - Clinical Reasoning in Nursing

Credits: 2
Hours/Week: Lecture 1.5 Lab 1
Internship hours per week 0
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

Prerequisite(s): BIOL 1020  (or higher), CHEM 1020  (or higher), ENGL 1020  or ENGL 1021 , and PSYC 1041  with grades of C or higher. 
Corequisite(s): NURS 2300  and NURS 2310  
Recommendation: Completion of BIOL 2031  and COMM 1031  or COMM 1041  or COMM 1051  or concurrently enrolled; basic math skills.

Major Content
  1. Theoretical Foundations of Clinical Judgement
    1. Learning to think
    2. Socratic questioning
    3. Components of Reasoning moving to or leading to Clinical Judgement - (Moving from clinical reasoning to clinical judgement)
    4. Clinical Judgement Measurement Models
    5. Nursing Process
  2. Cognitive Skills and Competencies of Clinical Judgement
  3. Translating clinical reasoning to test-taking
    1. Blooms’ Taxonomy
    2. Types of question formats
    3. Test-taking strategies
    4. Compare nursing process and test-taking strategies.
  4. Becoming a self-regulated thinker
  5. Application of nursing process and clinical judgement in the lab setting 

Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course students will be able to:

  1. describe the component cognitive skills used within a clinical judgement measurement model. 
  2. examine competencies associated with each cognitive skill. 
  3. explore self-directed thinking. 
  4. explain how test-taking strategies relate to the nursing process. 
  5. apply test-taking strategies and the nursing process to make clinical judgements.
  6. apply theoretical nursing knowledge and clinical judgement process. 

Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (MnTC): Goals and Competencies
Competency Goals (MnTC Goals 1-6)
None
Theme Goals (MnTC Goals 7-10)
None


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