Concept Mapping: A Critical-Thinking Approach to Care by Pamela McHugh Schuster PhD RN FNP-BC

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This identify presents scholars with a transparent, visible and systematic state of mind approximately, settling on, and devising a plan of care.Redesigned suggestion maps make crucial relationships effortless to appreciate. This identify positive aspects improved concentrate on the significance of nurse-patient communications to make sure actual info assortment. Six new types supply extra based guidance...Weekly scientific Self-Evaluation/Faculty overview, proposal Map Template for Pre-clinical and Postconference preliminary, soreness evaluate device, Glasgow Coma Scale clinic, Database, sufferer Profile shape and inspiration Map Care Plan overview. idea Map Generator is accessible on DavisPlus for teachers and students.Create, print, and electronic mail individualized idea maps. This identify offers the instruments had to build care plans for any sufferer, in any surroundings, in response to authorized criteria of care. it really works without or with nursing diagnoses. It emphasizes reasoning, improvising, and individualizing sufferer care. It teaches the right way to determine sufferer wishes, then manage, prioritize, and enforce care quick. It establishes the relationships among clinical and nursing diagnoses, evaluation facts, and coverings.

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Irvine, L: Can concept maps be used to promote meaningful learning in nurse education? J Adv Nurs 21:1175, 1995. 10. Kathol, DD, et al: Clinical correlation map: A tool for linking theory and practice. Nurse Educator 23(4):31, 1998. 11. Novak, J, and Gowin, DB: op cit. 12. Ausubel, DP, et al: op cit. 13. American Philosophical Association. Critical thinking: A statement of expert consensus for purposes of educational assessment and instruction. Center on 01Schuster(F)-01 9/27/07 6:26 PM Page 19 1 Education and Training for Employment, College of Education, The Ohio State University.

2) Patient Initials Never write a patient’s full name on anything that will be taken out of the hospital. All information recorded on the patient profile is confidential. Confidentiality involves ethical and legal standards of care. It is your ethical and legal responsibility to reveal confidential information only to health-care professionals directly involved in the patient’s care. Be very careful what you do with confidential information. Never leave forms lying 23 around in patient rooms where the patient, family, and friends may read what you have written, even if you include only initials on the data.

8) Surgical Procedures The best place to find out what types of surgical procedures the patient underwent (or is about to undergo) is on the surgical consent forms in the patient’s chart. This is because legal standards 02Schuster(F)-02 30 9/27/07 6:28 PM Page 30 Concept Mapping: A Critical-Thinking Approach to Care Planning demand that the exact procedure be specified and that no abbreviations be used. The surgical procedure is also listed on the Kardex, but it may be abbreviated there and therefore more difficult to interpret.

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