Friday night in the pediatric emergency department: a simulated exercise to promote clinical reasoning in the classroom.

Full Abstract

High acuity in client populations has placed increasing demands on novice nurses to apply concepts of clinical reasoning to nursing practice. To assist nursing students in developing clinical reasoning skills, an exercise called "Friday Night in the Pediatric Emergency Department" was designed to give students real-time experiences in triage situations using a simulated clinical experience in a classroom setting. The author describes the exercise and its impact on the clinical reasoning skills of undergraduate nursing students.

Author information

Author/s: Baldwin, Karen Brandt (KB);

Affiliation: School of Nursing, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, USA. kbaldwin(-atsign-)niu.edu

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Evaluation Studies; Journal Article

Journal: Nurse educator (Nurse Educ), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: -2007 Jan-Feb; vol 32 (issue 1) : pp 24-9

Dates: Created 2007/01/15; Completed 2007/03/02;

PMID: 17220764, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 2/18/2009, IMS Date: )

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