Key Terms
- assessment
- systematic and dynamic process of collecting and analyzing data about a client’s health
- Clinical Judgment Measurement Model (CJMM)
- nursing practice and education model that allows nurse educators to teach, assess, and measure the development of clinical judgment skills in nursing students
- deductive reasoning
- type of thinking that involves using a general standard or rule to create a strategy
- evaluation
- systematic determination of a patient's progress toward the achievement of outcomes and goals set during the care-planning process
- generalization
- proposed explanation for a situation
- hypothesis
- judgment formed from a set of facts, cues, and observations
- inductive reasoning
- type of thinking that involves noticing cues, making generalizations, and creating hypotheses
- inference
- conclusion drawn based on collected information
- long-term goal
- outcome that has a time frame of weeks to months
- objective data
- measurable and observable information collected during a physical examination
- outcome
- the desired result or goal after implementation of the patient’s individualized plan of care
- short-term goal
- outcome that has a time frame of days to a week
- subjective data
- patient’s own descriptions of their symptoms, feelings, and perceptions, as well as relevant information obtained from friends and family members