Designed to offer a wealth of knowledge about the importance of decision making in healthcare practice to reduce clinical risk. Offering a unique perspective on clinical decision making. This book highlights important aspects such as balancing intuition and experience while raising professional issues.
Contents
1 Paramedic Practice: The Changing Patient Profile in Urgent, Emergency and Critical Care
2 Professional Issues
3 The Evolution of the Paramedic as a Critical Thinker
4 Decision Making Theory: Human Factors, Dilemmas and Conundrums
5 The Garden Path Test: Putting Decision Making into Practice –Intuition, Experience, Hypotheses, and Deduction
6 The Cognitive Continuum: Enhancing your Decision Making Skills
7 Case-Based Discussion (Case Studies, Reflection, Action Learning)