Competency And Judgment
Competency in a rapidly changing healthcare environment remains a key component of excellent nursing care and the practice of nursing requires critical thinking and clinical reasoning. Indeed reasoning, and judgement can be taught to nurses over time and well organized mentoring that fosters their growth so they can become experts in their practice. Clinical reasoning and judgement are all part of critical thinking that an expect nurse acquired over time with learning experiences, this involves an ability to gather and analyze a patient data, evaluate, and decides on possible nursing actions to improve outcome. “Clinical reasoning also guides nurses in assessing, assimilating, retrieving, and/or discarding components of information that affect