Clinical Judgement and Decision Making in Nursing by Mooi Standing

Clinical Judgement and Decision Making in Nursing by Mooi Standing

Clinical decision-making is an indispensable facet of professional nursing care. It is essential that students develop sound decision-making skills in order to deal with the challenges they will encounter as registered nurses. This book enables pre-registration nursing students to understand, develop and apply these skills in order to practise safely and effectively. The structure of the book helps the student progress in effective decision-making right from the first to final year of their programme. The book links theory to previous students’ experiences and clinical scenarios to show how to use these skills in practice. Transforming Nursing Practice is a series tailor made for pre-registration student nurses. Each book in the series is: Affordable Mapped to the NMC Standards and Essential Skills Clusters Focused on applying theory to practice Full of active learning features

It′s a long time ago now since I last read a textbook, however, what I do remember is finding them more or less stultifyingEach chapter contained pages and pages of impenetrable prose ending with several broadly phrased questions which, in order to answer them, meant going back over the same dull reading to try and extract a few salient points.

In comparison, Clinical Judgement and Decision Making in Nursing is an altogether revolutionary kind of textbook. Far from inhibiting the inquisitive mind, it stimulates the reader′s neural networks right from the start with chapters brimming with short case studies which feature ordinary people facing everyday situations in a medical setting. 

The essential learning points are there for students to discern for themselves, which is by far the best way to retain knowledge.  In the event that some may struggle, the main points are identified in each set of circumstances and succinctly stated to reinforce and enhance understanding of specific issues.

Overall, the book could arguably be put forward as a landmark in teaching prospective nurses the importance and value of adhering to NMC standards of practice and personal behaviour.  It is also a significant tool in the raising of awareness amongst all medical professionals of the vital role a registered nurse plays in the daily life of us mortals as we hurtle toward our inevitable fate. 

-- Annie Hitchman

This is a truly excellent book.  The style of writing will appeal to readers of all levels within the nursing profession.  The author has cleverly written as if talking to the reader using examples from both nursing, university life as a student or within life in general.  Using these examples captures the reader’s attention because they are interesting and pose questions that can be applied within nursing or within their everyday lives.  Linking the NMC Standards for Pre-Registration Nursing Education domains to each chapter is also very helpful to both students and academic staff.   Students need to understand the domains and having this theory linked, highlighted and applied will enable this understanding.  It will also help them in their assessment of clinical practice.

I particularly liked the chapter on standardised clinical decision making.  This is very pertinent to the world of nursing where so often assessment tools are used as checklists and not as they should be.  It highlights the importance of evidence based practice and gives helpful links to that evidence.  The case example where the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) was introduced was one that many mental health practitioners come across and highlighted the many advantages of using this particular tool.

Although this book focuses on nurses, I believe that it would be very useful within other areas of healthcare professions.  It would be particularly useful to doctors who have trained in some overseas countries where they have not been encouraged, as part of their undergraduate and postgraduate medical education to consider how they make decisions or to challenge the robustness of the evidence. 

Overall I would highly recommend this book.  Congratulations to the author.

-- Susan Plummer * Unpublished review *

Dr Mooi Standing is an independent academic nursing consultant with over 40 years’ experience that includes: (i) practising mental health and adult nursing in a range of hospital and community settings; (ii) lecturing pre-registration and post-registration nursing students from certificate to Master’s level and presenting scholarly papers at international nursing conferences; (iii) researching how nurses develop clinical decision-making skills and publishing articles, books and chapters on this topic for nursing students, registered nurses and advanced practitioners; and (iv) providing external consultancy in curriculum development and quality enhancement of nursing programmes both nationally and internationally. Mooi is currently a Series Editor for Learning Matters′ Transforming Nursing Practice book series and has had extensive experience serving as a Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Quality Assurance Reviewer of nursing educational programmes, and as a Professional Regulator as a Panellist on the NMC Practice Committee.

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ISBN 13	9781473957268
ISBN 10	1473957265
Title	Clinical Judgement and Decision Making in Nursing
Author	Mooi Standing
Series	Transforming Nursing Practice Series
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Sage Publications Ltd
Year published	2017-05-02
Number of pages	248
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