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Introduction: The Clinical Reasoning Cycle is a tool that helps in making decision that enable nurses to select best care options using a process systematically which takes into consideration many factors. The Clinical Reasoning Cycle by Tracy-Levette Jones stimulates critical thinking in order to deliver appropriate management plan for the patient. Aim: The aim of the paper is to adopt and apply Clinical Reasoning Cycle into the nursing care of the patient so that they can easily understand application of Clinical Reasoning Cycle in the clinical areas. Methodology: This document illustrates a case study based on Levette Jones' Clinical Reasoning Cycle Conclusion: This paper presents a case study in medical-surgical nursing through a discussion of patientcentered, and evidence-based care provisions through a theoretical examination using the Clinical Reasoning Cycle (CRC) of Tracy Levette- Jones (2010). This paper will help the nurses both novice and proficient ones to understand implementation of Clinical Reasoning Cycle in the clinical areas and in writing the case study for the patient.
KEYWORDS: Clinical Reasoning Cycle, Critical thinking, Nursing care, Holistic care.
INTRODUCTION:
In nursing, mainly students have to undergo clinical placements and they have to do case study, especially post graduate students have to do case study based on some or the other theories. Thus, this paper will present the implementation of Tracy Levette Jones (2010) theory of Clinical Reasoning Cycle (CRC).
Patients with complicated chronic illnesses suffering from at least two or three chronic disorders require appropriate planning of health which use various medical facilities7. When a client with different long term disorder is brought to a medical institution with a severe condition, clinical practices of the nurse such as complex thinking processes are required to investigate and combine a massive amount of data that are both subjective and objective12.
Nurses striving to be critical thinkers must be rational, reasonable, transparent, thorough, truthful, and fair; and all those qualities must be expressed while behaving, communicating, or writing10.
Clinical reasoning is the mechanism by which practitioners gather, analyse and interpret the condition or issue of a patient so that treatments can be prepared and applied and findings evaluated10.
Adapted from Tracy Levett-Jones, et al. (2010):
The Clinical Reasoning Cycle (CRC) is a tool that helps in making decision...