Clinical Reasoning: The Art and Science of Critical and Creative Thinking

By Daniel Pesut and Joann Herman

This innovative book helps students learn clinical reasoning skills to become more outcome oriented. It introduces the OPT (outcome, present state, test) model, an alternative to the nursing process,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0827378696
• ISBN13: 9780827378698
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 0.8" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Every nurse will benefit immensely from reading this book.

In this book, the authors present and explain outcome-present-state model, "a third-generation nursing process model that emphasize reflection, outcome specification, and testing, given the client's story". Given the inevitable trends and growing emphasis on outcome measures in the health care industry, including the demand to document what nurses contribute to health care, there is a need for nurses to develop clinical reasoning skills. They can start by reading about the OPT model in this book. The authors applied the OPT model and its concepts to selected health care issues and needs of clients in different health care contexts. Every nurse who reads this book can relate to the use of the OPT model in a care context similar to his/her respective practice setting. This reader thoroughly enjoyed this book. The subsections are separated (yet integrated) by tables, figures, and "stop and think" exercises designed to reinforce concepts and materials.