"This book is designed to assist students throughout nursing school and in taking nursing examinations, mainly the NCLEX-RN exam, for registered nurse (RN) licensure. It focuses on assisting students to improve and enhance their clinical judgment skills. Clinical judgment involves the nurses ability to acquire information, analyze the data, recognize relevant findings, make inferences in a clinical situation, and implement appropriate nursing interventions. The nurse must implement appropriate nursing interventions and evaluate the clients response. Other aspects of applying clinical judgment involve complex nursing tasks such as setting priorities for client care, delegating nursing tasks, and managing clients and staff. Clinical judgment is necessary in all nursing practice areas, including medical, surgical, critical care, obstetric, pediatric, geriatric, rehabilitation, home health, mental health nursing, and inpatient and outpatient healthcare settings. Clinical judgment questions involving critical thinking, management, prioritizing, and delegation are some of the most challenging questions for the student and new graduate because no reference book is available to find the correct answers for each scenario. Determining the answers to these questions requires knowledge of basic scientific principles, standards of care, pathophysiology, psychosocial behaviors, leadership qualities, and critical thinking.

This book challenges students to sharpen their clinical judgment abilities in various nursing situations"-- Provided by publisher.