ArticlesClassroom TeachingClinical Judgment How to Strengthen Student Learning by CREATING Knowledge in your Classroom! To strengthen learning, students must not just be able to APPLY knowledge, but also CREATE…Keith RischerOctober 20, 2016
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ArticlesClinical JudgmentNurse Thinking Why Clinical Reasoning Is Foundational to Nursing Practice WHY is clinical reasoning foundational to nursing practice and how do you define it? Strengthen…Keith RischerJuly 28, 2016
ArticlesClinical JudgmentNurse Thinking What Character Trait Must Students Possess to Improve their Ability to Critically Think? There is one character trait that must be emphasized as well as internally present in…Keith RischerMay 12, 2016
ArticlesClinical JudgmentNurse Thinking The One Thing That Every Student Must Know Before they Graduate There is something that every new nurse (and educator!) must be taught but it is…Keith RischerMarch 31, 2016
Applied SciencesArticlesClinical JudgmentNurse Thinking Does my Patient have Orthostatic Changes? Why CO=SVxHR Must Be Applied to the Bedside! How do you confidently identify positive orthostatic changes? Textbooks can be ambiguous and conflicting. But…Keith RischerFebruary 14, 2016
ArticlesClinical JudgmentClinical TeachingNurse Thinking How to Strengthen Student Learning in the Clinical Setting by Asking These Questions To strengthen student learning in the clinical setting there are a series of questions that…Keith RischerDecember 24, 2015
ArticlesClinical JudgmentNurse Thinking Why Nurses Need to Think More like a Doctor to Be a Better Nurse If a nurse understands the essence of physician practice including WHY specific medications and treatments…Keith RischerJuly 23, 2015
ArticlesClinical JudgmentNurse Thinking How to Strengthen Student’s Ability to make a Correct Clinical Judgment Though clinical reasoning is the essence of thinking like a nurse, the end result of…Keith RischerMay 14, 2015
ArticlesClinical JudgmentClinical TeachingNurse Thinking Do You Know These Questions That Begin with ‘What’ To Develop Nurse Thinking in the Clinical Setting? Asking relevant questions is one of the most effective strategies to strengthen the critical/clinical thinking…Keith RischerFebruary 26, 2015
ArticlesClinical JudgmentNurse Thinking 3 Reasons Why NANDA is a NONO to Develop Nurse Thinking (7th in a series) NANDA nursing diagnostic statements can be a barrier to identifying the current care priority when…Keith RischerApril 16, 2014
ArticlesClinical JudgmentClinical TeachingNurse Thinking The “Five Rights” of Clinical Reasoning (4th in a series) In addition to the 5+ "rights" related to safe med administration that every student and…Keith RischerMarch 27, 2014