Clinical Reasoning in the Health Professions

Name: Clinical Reasoning in the Health Professions
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ISBN: 9780443110979

by Joy Higgs, Gail M. Jensen, Stephen Loftus, Franziska V. Trede, Sandra Grace

5th Edition

Publisher: Elsevier

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Print ISBN	9780443110979
eText ISBN	9780443111655
Publisher	Elsevier
Publishing Year	2025
Edition	5th Edition
Language	English
Pages	530

Clinical Reasoning in the Health Professions, 5th Edition, presents core concepts and theoretical frameworks necessary for healthcare practitioners to reason effectively while making sound clinical decisions. Edited by Joy Higgs, Gail M. Jensen, Stephen Loftus, Franziska V. Trede, and Sandra Grace, this textbook guides readers through systematic decision-making processes across clinical environments. It establishes a structured foundation for understanding complex healthcare practice.

The volume examines clinical reasoning across ten specific health disciplines. Dedicated sections analyze practice patterns in medicine, nursing, physiotherapy, dentistry, and occupational therapy, while expanding coverage to paramedicine, optometry, dietetics, pharmacy, and speech pathology. Each section addresses how practitioners in those respective disciplines handle patient data and evaluate outcomes.

Case studies within the text systematically integrate clinical reasoning theory with practical application. This pedagogical approach assists both undergraduate health students and post-graduate health students who are building clinical decision-making capabilities across different care environments.

Chapter 1: The Future of Healthcare
Chapter 2: Contexts of Clinical Reasoning: Navigating a World of Increasing Complexity
Chapter 3: Clinical Reasoning: Challenges of Interpretation and Practice in the Current Era
Chapter 4: Re-interpreting Clinical Reasoning: a Model of Encultured Decision-making Practice Capabilities
Chapter 5: Multiple Spaces of Engagement and Influence in Clinical Decision Making
Chapter 6: A Critical Social Sciences Model for Practice
Chapter 7: The Development of Clinical Reasoning Expertise
Chapter 8: The Language of Clinical Reasoning
Chapter 9: Expertise and Clinical Reasoning
Chapter 10: Empowerment and Clinical Reasoning
Chapter 11: Changing Demographic and Cultural Dimensions of Populations: Implications for Healthcare and Decision Making
Chapter 12: Multiple Contexts of Healthcare
Chapter 13: Next-generation Clinical Practice Guidelines
Chapter 14: Evidence-based Practice and Clinical Reasoning: How Are the Two Related?
Chapter 15: Collaborative Decision Making in Liquid Times
Chapter 16: A Model for Clinical Ethics Reasoning in Adult and Paediatric Medicine
Chapter 17: Cultivating Clinical Reasoning: the Need for the Health Humanities
Chapter 18: Shared Decision Making in Practice
Chapter 19: Using Telehealth in Clinical Education: Opportunities, Challenges and Considerations
Chapter 20: Methods in the Study of Clinical Reasoning
Chapter 21: Clinical Reasoning and Biomedical Knowledge Implications for Teaching
Chapter 22: Clinical Reasoning in Medicine
Chapter 23: Clinical Reasoning in Nursing
Chapter 24: Clinical Reasoning in Physiotherapy
Chapter 25: Clinical Reasoning in Dentistry
Chapter 26: Clinical Reasoning in Occupational Therapy
Chapter 27: Clinical Decision Making in Paramedicine
Chapter 28: Decision Making and Clinical Reasoning in Optometry
Chapter 29: Clinical Reasoning in Dietetics
Chapter 30: Clinical Reasoning in Pharmacy
Chapter 31: Speech Pathology: Facilitating Clinical Reasoning
Chapter 32: Clinical Decision Making Across Orthodox and Complementary Medicine Fields
Chapter 33: Towards a Clinical Education Pedagogy for Developing Clinical Reasoning Capability
Chapter 34: Leading a Faculty in Implementing Clinical Reasoning
Chapter 35: Developing a Curriculum on Clinical Reasoning
Chapter 36: Teaching Clinical Reasoning to Preclinical Medical Students
Chapter 37: Teaching Clinical Reasoning in Nursing Education
Chapter 38: Interprofessional Programmes to Develop Clinical Reasoning
Chapter 39: Teaching Clinical Reasoning in Paramedicine
Chapter 40: Developing Clinical Reasoning Capability
Chapter 41: Learning to Communicate Clinical Reasoning
Chapter 42: Learning to Research Clinical Reasoning
Chapter 43: Clinical Decision Making, Culture and Health
Chapter 44: Learning About Factors Influencing Clinical Decision Making
Chapter 45: Peer Learning to Develop Clinical Reasoning Abilities
Chapter 46: Assessing Clinical Reasoning in Medicine
Chapter 47: Clinical Reasoning Education: Looking to the Future