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COMPETENCY & CLINICAL REASONING |
Competency and Clinical Reasoning
The society should be able to trust professional nurses to display a high level of competence in their work (American Nurses Association, 2013). All nurses have a personal responsibility to ensure their level of competence remains as high as possible. The Nursing associations are tasked with the job of creating a procedure of assessing competence of nurses. Competency in this context refers to the quality of work that a patient looks forward to from a nurse and it is characterized by high knowledge levels, well-honed skills and capabilities as well as good deduction ability.
Clinical reasoning is a commonly used phrase in medical writing where it could appear in its other forms such as medical judgment, analytical reasoning, solution provision and others. Clinical reasoning refers to a procedure in which nurses and other health personnel gather signs and signals, decipher what they could mean and with this, make a diagnosis of a patient's illness. Solutions are then developed and administered, and its results accessed to detect ways through which the solutions can be improved. This procedure is based on the level of analytical reasoning and it's affected by the general opinions, beliefs and notions held by the subject. Clinical reasoning cannot be accurately described as a linear system however it could be projected as a complex web of medical experiences (Faculty of Health, University of Newcastle, 2009).
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The dependence of clinical reasoning on previous experience to family nurse consultants is much more pronounced compared to the other nursing fields. Furthermore, family nurse consultants are expected to be equipped with the capability of identifying useful deductions from relevant scientific and technical information and how they can be used to help a specific patient. This process requires the nurse to discern the patient's medical records, their fears and likes and their identified adverse reactions to medical treatments, and then consider all these before making a medical verdict.
Some of the duties of the family nurse consultant are preventive therapy, clinical tests, medical deductions and care of short and long-term medical disorders for single patients as well as households. Family nurse consultants are dedicated to improving the quality of life of the family and they fully grasp the importance of the subject family's surroundings and relationships to the efficacy and success of their medical treatments (College of Registered Nurses of British Columbia, 2011).
From the research carried out by Gormley, Misener and Burge in 2013, it was established that a nurse consultant is simply a nurse with higher…
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Benner P, Hughes R. G, Sutphen M. (2008). Clinical Reasoning, Decisionmaking, and Action: Thinking Critically and Clinically. In e. Hughes RG, Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses (Chapter 6). Rockville: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
College of Registered Nurses of British Columbia. (2011, January). Competencies Required for Nurse Practitioners. Retrieved February 19, 2017, from: http://phabc.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Competencies-Required-for-Nurse-Practitioners-in-BC.pdf
Faculty of Health, University of Newcastle. (2009). Clinical Reasoning. Retrieved February 19, 2017, from: http://www.utas.edu.au/Clinical-Reasoning-Instructor-Resources.pdf
Gormley, E. S., Misener, R. M., & Burge, F. (2013). A case study of nurse practitioner role implementation in primary care: what happens when new roles are introduced? BMC Nursing, Vol 12(1).DOI: 10.1186/1472-6955-12-1
The American Nurses Association. (2013, August). Competency Model. Retrieved February 19, 2017, from: https://learn.ana nursingknowledge.org/template/ana/publications_pdf/
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