INSTRUCTIONS
Clinical judgment is considered a foundational component of professional advanced-level nursing practice. This ability enables nurses to deliver safe patient care with optimal outcomes. Nurses, particularly those transitioning into advanced clinical practice, require assistance to enhance their clinical judgment skills. As advanced-level nurses move toward professional maturity, clinical judgment will also move from novice to expert.
Engaging in self-compassion, self-awareness, and self-reflection can help nurses identify practices that promote happiness, optimal quality of life, and health, including but not limited to the following categories: emotional, intellectual, physical, social, environmental, financial, and physical health. Emotional intelligence is the ability to positively understand and manage your emotions, which facilitates coping with stress and communicating effectively. The ability to channel emotions and communicate effectively can decrease burnout and enhance patient care outcomes.
- Consider the Lasater rubric of clinical judgment in your required reading.
- Identify the four components of this education assessment rubric.
- How might demonstrating emotional intelligence and maintaining a calm demeanor help you develop clinical judgment?
- Share an example in your current practice or potential future role where you may need to evaluate evidence or aggregate data results to clinically assess a practice, policy, or treatment plan, displaying clinical judgment.
Support your stance with peer-reviewed sources.
ANSWERS
The Lasater Clinical Judgement Rubric includes four main components: noticing, interpreting, responding, and reflecting. Noticing involves observing key signs in a patient’s behavior or condition (Sezer et al., 2025). For example, a PMHNP may notice that a patient with depression has suddenly become talkative and restless. Interpreting is the process of making sense of what has been observed by connecting current signs to past experiences or known patterns (Sezer et al., 2025). In this case, the PMHNP may interpret the change in behavior as a… To access the full answer, use the purchase button below.