Using Depression Inventories: Not a Replacement for Clinical Judgment

Guide for reflection using the clinical judgment model.

Reflection is widely used in nursing education to facilitate learning. Student writing and thinking, however, is not always of the quality faculty expect or desire. This project originated from concern about the quality of student descriptions of clinical experiences in a senior-level precepted clinical practicum. Providing students with more structure and guidance for consideration of clinical...

Clinical Judgment

of Medicine and other periodicals over the past decade. Dr. Feinstein's aim is nothing less than to induce doctors to think in new ways. He hopes that one result of his proposed revolution in clinical thinking will restore to clinical medicine the status it has lost owing to the explosive growth of molecular biology. He traces at length the growth and change of clinical investigation in this co...

Effects on Nursing Students’ Clinical Judgment, Communication, and Skill Performance Following Debriefing using a Clinical Judgment Rubric

In this study, nursing students underwent simulation training with the aim of assessing the effects of post-simulation debriefing using a clinical judgment rubric to evaluate clinical judgment, communication, and skill performance. There were statistically significant differences between-group differences in participants’ clinical judgment and communication. However, no statistically significan...

The QOF, NICE, and depression: a clumsy mechanism that undermines clinical judgment.

Clinical versus actuarial judgment.

Professionals are frequently consulted to diagnose and predict human behavior; optimal treatment and planning often hinge on the consultant's judgmental accuracy. The consultant may rely on one of two contrasting approaches to decision-making--the clinical and actuarial methods. Research comparing these two approaches shows the actuarial method to be superior. Factors underlying the greater acc...