Teaching Circle to Improve Nursing Clinical Judgment in an Undergraduate Nursing Program

Clinical judgment combines both decision making capacity and the ability to think critically. In an effort to foster clinical judgment in students, a quality improvement plan was initiated. A teaching circle was created by key nursing faculty. After a review of the literature, goals, objectives, and...

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Published in:The Journal of nursing education 2020-04, Vol.59 (4), p.218-221
Main Authors: Martin, Benjamin, Greenawalt, Julia A, Palmer, Elizabeth, Edwards, Taylor
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Clinical Competence - standards
Clinical decision making
Clinical Decision-Making - methods
Cognition & reasoning
Critical thinking
Curricula
Decision making
Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate - methods
Faculty Development
Faculty, Nursing - organization & administration
Humans
Hypotheses
Judgment
Learning
Methods
Nurses
Nursing
Nursing education
Nursing Education Research
Nursing Students
Planning
Problem solving
Skills
Social aspects
Students
Students, Nursing - psychology
Teachers
Teaching
Textbooks
Thinking Skills
Writing
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Summary:Clinical judgment combines both decision making capacity and the ability to think critically. In an effort to foster clinical judgment in students, a quality improvement plan was initiated. A teaching circle was created by key nursing faculty. After a review of the literature, goals, objectives, and aims were articulated. Faculty development, through the use of "lunch and learn," was delivered using webinars, discussion, and application of item writing. Faculty benefited from the teaching circle's professional development activities by gleaning tools to develop, measure, and assess clinical judgment with undergraduate nursing students in nursing courses. Professional faculty development is necessary to effectively prepare students for the rigors of contemporary practice. The use of a teaching circle is one effective strategy to foster success for programmatic improvement. Further research is warranted to explore best teaching learning strategies in the construct of clinical judgment. [J Nurs Educ. 2020;59(4):218-221.].
ISSN:0148-4834
1938-2421
DOI:10.3928/01484834-20200323-08