Question: Z Clinical Reasoning Questions To Develop Nurse Thinking (Formulate And Reflect Before And After Report, But BEFORE Seeing Patient The First Time) 1. Concisely Summarize Your Patient’s Course Of Stay. What Is The Day Of Admission/post-op Day? 2. What Is The Primary Problem That Brought Your Patient To This Care Setting? Briefly Summarize Pathophysiology …

Z Clinical Reasoning Questions to Develop Nurse Thinking (Formulate and reflect before and after report, but BEFORE seeing patient the first time) 1. Concisely summarize your patient’s course of stay. What is the day of admission/post-op day? 2. What is the primary problem that brought your patient to this care setting? Briefly summarize pathophysiology of this problem in your OWN WORDS. 3. What vital signs/nursing assessments/lab-diagnostic test results are RELEVANT and need to be monitored and trended? Why are they relevant? 4. What body system(s) needs to be assessed most thoroughly because of the primary problem? What specific mursing assessments are most important? Why? 5. What is the current nursing PRIORITY? 6. What independent nursing interventions (interventions that do not require an order/based on mursing judgment of patient needs) will you initiate based on this priority and what are the desired outcomes? 7. What is the worst possible/most likely complication(s) to anticipate based on the primary problem? 8. What will you do to PREVENT this complication from developing? 9. What nursing assessments will identify this complication EARLY if it develops? 10. What mirsing interventions will you implement if this complication develops? While Providing Care (Review and note after initial patient assessment) 1. What current clinical assessment data is relevant and needs to be TRENDED? Based on your interpretation of current clinical data, what is your judgment regarding this patient’s current status?