Sunday, January 23, 2011

Clinical reasoning

I have encountered many people talking about clinical reasoning. It is a well used term but not a lot of people know how to break down their clinical reasoning.  Here in the UK, I have commonly come across with people or colleagues who are quick to question a clinical reasoning of another colleague when the Colleague was only asking bout the procedure how to order equipment - that is not a problem with clinical reasoning.  It is a problem with procedural know how. What does Clinical reasoning actually mean?  Check the books people. It's there.

facets of CLinical reasoning are these:
1. clinical aspects of the case
2. narrative(personal aspects of the case)
3. ethical aspects of the case
4. pragmatic aspects of the case

( you can find details about this in willard and spackman ---- 8th edition)
try using these four areas if you want to make a decision about your cases.  I will be blogging about this in detail as we go along

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