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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"clinical judgement"”.
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Aspects of registered psychaitric nurses' talk about their clinical judgement and decision-making.
Researchers have been investigating the clinical judgement and decision-making of nurses for several decades now. However, prior to the research described in this thesis, Registered Psychiatric Nurses (RPNs) working in the Irish Republic had not been the subject of a comprehensive study looking …
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Why should physicians read? Understanding clinical judgement and its relation to literary experience
… of the biographical”. The very core of clinical medicine is shown to be the clinical encounter, an interpretive meeting where the illness experience is at the centre of attention. The physician can reach the goals of medicine only by developing clinical judgement. Clinical judgement is …
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Gender Effects on Recall, Clinical Judgement and Treatment Recommendations for a Combination of Major Depression and Alcohol Dependence Symptoms
… effect of client gender on several aspects of clinical decision-making processes and clinical judgement when a client presented with a combination of depressive and alcohol-dependent symptoms. Forty-four male and 44 female clinicians, who came from various mental health disciplines (i.e., …
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Fall risk assessment : A prospective investigation of nurses' clinical judgement and risk assessment tools in predicting patient falls in an acute care setting
… there is currently no evidence to support the clinical utility of fall risk assessment tools. There is a need to conduct further research to establish the efficacy of fall risk assessment tools for inpatient populations. Additionally, nurses clinical judgement in assessing fall risk may aid the …
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Clinician judgement of intellectual function
… has been little research on the efficacy of clinical judgement versus actuarial methods in this area, and only one study has examined the methods used by clinicians to estimate IQ. In this thesis experienced and novice neuropsychologists' estimation of intellectual function were compared to …
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A realistic evaluation of early warning systems and acute care training for early recognition and management of deteriorating ward-based patients
… Findings showed that personal (confidence; clinical judgement; professional accountability; personality), social (ward leadership; communication), organisational (workload; time pressures; staffing levels and skill-mix), educational (constraints on training and experiential learning) and …
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Trainee Attitudes Toward Social Class as Predictors of Clinical Decision Making: Exploring the Effects of Classism in Psychotherapy
… contribute to meaningful differences in clinical decision making. A sample of mental health trainees (n = 147) attending graduate-level programs in the U.S. were recruited and randomly assigned to one of two clinical vignette conditions. Both vignette conditions included identical data …
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The development and validation of a modified Situation-Background-Assessment-recommendation (SBAR) communication tool for reporting early signs of deterioration in patients
… Reporting early signs of physiological or clinical deterioration could improve patient safety and prevent 'failure to rescue' or unexpected intensive care admissions, cardiac arrest or death. The structured Situation-Background-Assessment-Recommendation (SBAR) communication tool enables …
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The development of evidence-based guidelines to inform the extrication of casualties trapped in motor vehicles following a collision
… patient values and preferences and expert clinical judgement are used as a framework for this thesis. Aims and Objectives To develop evidence-based guidance for the extrication of patients trapped in motor vehicles by applying EBM principles to this area of practice. This will be achieved …
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The Transition from Final Year Medical Student to Foundation Doctor: The Clinical Reasoning Journey
Although clinical reasoning is both broad and complex, the term “clinical reasoning” is contested and multiple definitions have been mooted within different contexts. In its simplest form, clinical reasoning is regarded as a “decision-making” process. Other definitions outline it in terms of a …
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Alcohol-Related Brain Damage: A Delphi Consensus Study and the Development and Pretesting of a Novel Screening Tool
… on non-specific cognitive measures or informal clinical judgement, with no standardised ARBD-specific screening tools available. This PhD aimed to address this gap by exploring service-provider perspectives on ARBD and developing a novel screening instrument to support earlier identification …
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Crisis management for schools
… practice appears to be based mainly on clinical judgement and the related best practice literature provides valuable insights. A number of specific programs are discussed which do have some founding in research. For a range of reasons, mental health promotion in the school context is …
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Development of outcome-based rubric for evaluating performance in nursing simulation
… 측정한 결과 .76 ∼ .95이며, Lasater(2007)의 임상판단 루브릭(clinical judgement rubric)과 상관관계를 측정한 결과는 .98로 높게 나와 동시타당도는 검증되었다. 이와 같이 한국간호교육평가원의 간호사 핵심역량에 따른 프로그램 학습성과를 기반으로 간호시뮬레이션 실습의 수행평가를 위한 루브릭이 개발되었고, 루브릭의 신뢰도와 타당도가 모두 검증되었다. 본 루브릭으로 간호시뮬레이션 실습의 학습성과를 평가함으로써 간호시뮬레이션 실습의 질적 향상을 도모할 뿐 아니라 나아가 간호학생의 역량강화와 …
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The norming of the "Evaluation du language Oral" and the prevalence of speech and language disorders in pre-school aged children from Yaoundé (Cameroon)
… for this population. These norms can be used for clinical practice and research purpose in Cameroon. In order to determine the prevalence of articulation, expressive and receptive language disorders, a cut-off of two Standard Deviations (SD) below the normative mean was applied. The identification …
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Automation bias and prescribing decision support – rates, mediators and mitigators
Purpose: Computerised clinical decision support systems (CDSS) are implemented within healthcare settings as a method to improve clinical decision quality, safety and effectiveness, and ultimately patient outcomes. Though CDSSs tend to improve practitioner performance and clinical outcomes, …
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Navigating complexity: Dyslexia screening and assessment practices among educational psychologists in Cape Town's private practices
… relying heavily on qualitative integration and clinical judgement. However, they face overwhelming exosystemic constraints, including pervasive challenges with outdated and culturally inappropriate assessment tools, as well as critical resource shortages for Afrikaans assessment. To compensate, …
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Exploring acceptability and feasibility of a wearable device to facilitate home phototherapy treatment for newborn jaundice in rural Scotland: an interpretive description study.
… healthcare professionals did not trust their clinical judgement to assess and manage newborn jaundice, due to the fear that they would be held clinically accountable for serum bilirubin levels not improving. This affected healthcare professionals' ability to trust parental capabilities. As a …
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Estimation of risk associated to peripheral dose in patients undergoing radiotherapy treatment
… into account both types of complications and a clinical judgement taking into account other factors such as illness prognosis and, consequently, life expectancy.
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Exploration of Factors that Influence the use of Psychological Testing in the Treatment and Evaluation of Children: Development of a Clinical Decision-Making Model
… on the rise among children. Within the field of clinical psychology, psychological testing is considered a professional competency and a formative diagnostic tool. Simultaneously, testing can help clarify differential diagnosis, guide treatment for both medical and mental health conditions, and …