| CODE | IHC3008 | ||||||||||||||||
| TITLE | Clinical Decision Making | ||||||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 03 - Years 2, 3, 4 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 6 | ||||||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 10 | ||||||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Faculty of Health Sciences | ||||||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit is designed to enhance the professional health practitioner’s clinical decision making skills to support safe practice across various health settings and with different patient populations with diverse health issues. Using a case-based approach and a clinical decision-making framework, the students will be exploring the current knowledge required to implement best practices with respect to the assessment and care of patients with various actual or potential health challenges. This study-unit will start with a game initially to introduce decision making. This is followed by discussion forums, videos, and readings to equip the students with different strategies which will in turn empower the students to acquire knowledge and develop an understanding and ability to achieve efficient and accurate clinical decision making, which places patients and service users at the centre of care. Study-Unit Aims: Professionals have to take clinical decisions continuously, as part of their daily practice., involving a great deal of risk. This study-unit aims to increase the ability of the students to make autonomous judgements in light of evidence and to do so safely, effectively and collaboratively. It will allow students to formulate and justify clinical decisions, apply appropriate interventions and treatment plans within complex and dynamic clinical environments, always placing patients and service users at the centre of care. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Possess a level of knowledge and understanding of the philosophy and practice of clinical decision-making by going through the three core processes of: Knowledge, cognition and metacognition; and - Describe theories, concepts and methods that underpin patient centred clinical reasoning and decision-making processes. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Critically explore the decision-making processes used in specific area of practice that are underpinned by evidence, sound clinical judgment and ethical stance; - Augment the understanding of several frameworks to support clinical decision making; - Develop the ability to assess, plan and evaluate client-centred care based on multiple ways of knowing, principles of evidence based decisions (evidence based practice) and current best-practices; and - Develop a clear professional ethos (through reflection) and an increased understanding of the factors that will present with ethical issues in clinical decision making. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: - Alfaro-Lefevre, R. (2012). Critical thinking, clinical reasoning and clinical judgement: a practical approach (5th ed). Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders. - Lin, G. A., & Fagerlin, A. (2014). Shared decision making: state of the science. Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, 7(2), 328-334. - Higgs, J., Jones, M. A., Loftus, S., & Christensen, N. (2018). Clinical reasoning in the health professions. Elsevier Health Sciences. - Hunink, M. M., Weinstein, M. C., Wittenberg, E., Drummond, M. F., Pliskin, J. S., Wong, J. B., & Glasziou, P. P. (2014). Decision making in health and medicine: integrating evidence and values. Cambridge University Press. - Jasper, M. (2011). Professional development, reflection and decision-making for nurses (Vol. 17). London: John Wiley & Sons. - Kadneman, D. (2011). Thinking fast and slow. London: Penguin. - Lee, D. S., Abdullah, K. L., Subramanian, P., Bachmann, R. T., & Ong, S. L. (2017). An integrated review of the correlation between critical thinking ability and clinical decision‐making in nursing. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 26(23-24), 4065-4079. - Standing, M. (2011). Clinical judgement and decision making for nursing students (Transforming nursing practice). Exeter:Learning Matters Ltd. - Standing, M. (2017). Clinical Judgement and Decision Making in Nursing. Exeter: Learning Matters ltd. - Vahdat, S., Hamzehgardeshi, L., Hessam, S., & Hamzehgardeshi, Z. (2014). Patient involvement in health care decision making: a review. Iranian Red Crescent Medical Journal, 16(1). |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Independent Study and Online Learning | ||||||||||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Veronica Montebello |
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The availability of optional units may be subject to timetabling constraints. Units not attracting a sufficient number of registrations may be withdrawn without notice. It should be noted that all the information in the description above applies to study-units available during the academic year 2023/4. It may be subject to change in subsequent years. |
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