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What is personal judgement? How can it help me interpret and follow official guidelines? How can I use it successfully in my daily practice?
Rules and codes for healthcare professionals continue to proliferate yet are unable to offer practical advice in specific circumstances. To help balance official rules with the variable, unique human element, David Seedhouse and Vanessa Peutherer explain what personal judgement is and how it can be applied routinely and effectively in everyday decision-making in healthcare.
Through the use of over 40 interactive scenarios drawn from real-life practice, the authors encourage you to use a range of techniques to boost your personal judgement, introducing different models and approaches to decision-making and exploring their strengths as well as their limitations. The authors then talk you through their own suggestions for solving commonplace but challenging healthcare problems.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Introducing Personal Judgement
Chapter 2: Classic Approaches to Nursing and Healthcare Decision-Making
Chapter 3: Myths and Facts About Healthcare Decision-Making
Chapter 4: PSP: Personally Involved Decision-Making
Chapter 5: Practice Scenario: An Exemplar
Chapter 6: Practice Scenarios: Staff and Professional Issues
Chapter 7: Practice Scenarios: Patient and Family Issues
Chapter 8: Using Imagination to Improve Personal Judgement
About the author
Professor of Deliberative Practice, Aston University, UK, Owner, Values Exchange.
Summary
Rules and codes for healthcare professionals continue to proliferate yet are unable to offer practical advice in specific circumstances. To help balance official rules with the variable, unique human element, David Seedhouse and Vanessa Peutherer explain what personal judgement is and how it can be applied routinely and effectively in everyday decision-making in healthcare.
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This book is a must read for nurses in all fields, whether student or registered. Any nurse who has questioned their own judgment or that of others, pondered over the whys and wherefores of decisions made, situations unfolded and what ifs, will find it infinitely helpful. The combination of David s philosophy and Vanessa s clinical expertise shine lights on the messiness of clinical practice and misfits of rules and regulations designed to guide nurses through their daily work. The book acknowledges the confusion that inexperience throws up and gives reassurance as to how to overcome it. It positively encourages readers to think critically, to question, to value their own personal judgement and it very much supports reflective practice in developing knowledge and understanding. It is a very useful classroom resource as well as supporting individual learning. Jane James - Swansea University
