Clinical Reasoning in the Health Professions
by Joy Higgs
4th Edition
Publisher: Elsevier
Book Details
| Print ISBN | 9780702062247 |
| eText ISBN | 9780702065057 |
| Publisher | Elsevier |
| Publishing Year | 2018 |
| Edition | 4th Edition |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 532 |
Clinical Reasoning in the Health Professions, 4th Edition, is a book examining decision making across healthcare practice, professional education, and clinical research. The text explores how practitioners interact with clients and make professional choices within diverse health fields.
The volume investigates contextual influences on clinical judgment, addressing factors such as cultural dynamics, patient-centred care, and the relationship between clinical reasoning and evidence-based practice. It also considers collaborative decision making across interdisciplinary teams.
Intended for educators, learners, practitioners, and researchers, the work highlights approaches for integrating reasoning practices into professional curricula. For example, it considers how decision aids can involve clients directly in clinical decisions.
Table of Contents
Section 1: Understanding clinical reasoning
Chapter 1: Clinical reasoning: Challenges of interpretation and practice in the 21st century
Chapter 2: Re-interpreting clinical reasoning: A model of encultured decision making practice capabilities
Chapter 3: Multiple spaces of choice, engagement and influence in clinical decision making
Chapter 4: Clinical reasoning and models of practice
Chapter 5: The development of clinical reasoning expertise
Chapter 6: Expertise and clinical reasoning
Section 2: The changing context of clinical reasoning and practice
Chapter 7: The context of clinical reasoning across the health professions in the 21st century
Chapter 8: Changing demographic and cultural dimensions of populations: Implications for healthcare and decision making
Chapter 9: Clinical thinking, client expectations and patient-centred care
Chapter 10: Next generation clinical practice guidelines
Chapter 11: Action and narrative: Two dynamics of clinical reasoning
Chapter 12: The language of clinical reasoning
Chapter 13: Evidence-based practice and clinical reasoning: In tension, tandem or two sides of the same coin?
Chapter 14: Methods in the study of clinical reasoning
Section 3: Collaborative and transdisciplinary reasoning
Chapter 15: Collaborative decision making in liquid times
Chapter 16: Ethical reasoning
Chapter 17: Shared decision making in practice
Chapter 18: Using decision aids to involve clients in clinical decision making
Chapter 19: Clinical decision making, social justice and client empowerment
Chapter 20: Clinical decision making across orthodox and complementary medicine fields
Section 4: Clinical reasoning and the professions
Chapter 21: Clinical reasoning in medicine
Chapter 22: Clinical reasoning in nursing
Chapter 23: Clinical reasoning in physiotherapy
Chapter 24: Clinical reasoning in dentistry
Chapter 25: Clinical reasoning in occupational therapy
Chapter 26: Clinical decision making in emergency medicine
Chapter 27: Clinical decision making in paramedicine
Chapter 28: Clinical decision making in optometry
Chapter 29: Clinical reasoning in dietetics
Chapter 30: Clinical reasoning in pharmacy
Section 5: Teaching clinical reasoning
Chapter 31: Pedagogies for teaching and learning clinical reasoning
Chapter 32: Teaching clinical reasoning in medical education courses
Chapter 33: Teaching clinical reasoning in nursing education
Chapter 34: Speech-language pathology students: Learning clinical reasoning
Chapter 35: Clinical reasoning and biomedical knowledge: Implications for teaching
Chapter 36: Cultivating a thinking surgeon, using a Clinical Thinking Pathway as a learning and assessment process: ten years on
Chapter 37: Interprofessional programs to develop clinical reasoning
Chapter 38: Assessing clinical reasoning
Section 6: Learning clinical reasoning+
Chapter 39: Learning to communicate clinical reasoning
Chapter 40: Developing clinical reasoning capability
Chapter 41: Remediating learning and performance of clinical reasoning in medicine
Chapter 42: Learning about factors influencing clinical decision making
Chapter 43: Learning reasoning using simulation
Chapter 44: Learning to use evidence to support decision making
Chapter 45: Learning to research clinical reasoning
Chapter 46: Learning clinical reasoning across cultural contexts
Chapter 47: Peer learning to develop clinical reasoning abilities
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