The Essentials of Clinical Reasoning for Nurses: Using the Outcome-Present State Test Model for Relative Practice

In today’s healthcare environment of scarce resources and challenges related to safety and quality, nurses must make decisions after decision to ensure timely, accurate, and efficient provision of care. Solid decision-making, or lack thereof, can significantly affect patient care and outcomes.

Clinical reasoning-how a nurse processes information and chooses what action to take-is a skill vital to nursing practice and split-second decisions. And yet, developing the clinical reasoning to make ...