Enhancing Doctor of Nursing Practice Students' Diagnostic and Clinical Reasoning Skills
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- DOI: 10.3928/01484834-20220912-10
Enhancing Doctor of Nursing Practice Students' Diagnostic and Clinical Reasoning Skills
Abstract
Background: This article describes one school of nursing's successful approach to augmenting Doctor of Nursing Practice students' diagnostic and clinical reasoning skills.
Method: Faculty convened a taskforce to evaluate the current clinical tracking system to expand the clinical log and develop a formative assessment tool.
Results: The clinical log enhancement allowed faculty to assess students' learning, clinical decision making, and readiness for clinical progression throughout the program.
Conclusion: The expansion of the clinical log system resulted in students' heightened understanding of documentation and clinical practice, and also allowed faculty to comprehensively assess students in diagnostic and clinical reasoning. [J Nurs Educ. 2023;62(2):109-111.].
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