"Learning a way of thinking" - World Café on clinical reasoning in nursing and midwifery education and practice across five European Union countries

Pađen, Ljubiša (author), Pajnič, Manca (author), Vettorazzi, Renata (author), Pérez-Perdomo, Ana (author), Stefaniak, Małgorzata (author), Claes, Nele (author), Franco, Hugo (author), Vandervoort, An (author), Ravljen, Mirjam (author)

Clinical reasoning is a key attribute of nursing and midwifery professionals. As a part of the Erasmus plus project, we designed a study with the aim of exploring the understanding of clinical reasoning as a concept, experiences of teaching clinical reasoning and practices related to using clinical reasoning in nursing and midwifery. A qualitative study was carried out using the World Café method, involving 44 participants from five European countries. The participants represented diverse professional backgrounds, including nurses, midwives and lecturers. Our analytical approach was based on a thematic analysis. We categorized the data into three main categories, namely, “Spiral of thinking”, “The learning and teaching of a way of thinking” and “Clinical reasoning in real life”, all under an overarching theme, “Learning a way of thinking”. This study highlighted areas of learning and teaching which can be improved in current nursing and midwifery education. Furthermore, it identified barriers, facilitators and practices from five European countries which can be used in the further development of nursing and midwifery curricula and courses with the aim of enhancing clinical reasoning competence and ultimately improving patient care.

• Language: English
• Keywords: clinical reasoning, decision making, education, healthcare, participatory method, co-production
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: ZF - Faculty of Health Sciences
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2023
• Number of pages: 14 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 11, iss. 2, art. 2969
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-152282
• UDC: 616-083:616-071
• ISSN on article: 2227-9032
• DOI: 10.3390/healthcare11222969
• COBISS.SI-ID: 172408067
• Publication date in RUL: 16.11.2023

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Healthcare
• Shortened title: Healthcare
• Publisher: MDPI AG
• ISSN: 2227-9032
• COBISS.SI-ID: 520110873

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: klinično sklepanje, odločanje, izobraževanje, skrb za zdravje, participativna metoda, koprodukcija

Projects

• Funder: EC - European Commission
• Funding programme: Erasmus+
• Project number: 2021-1-BE02-KA220-HED-000023194
• Name: Clinical reasoning in nursing/midwifery education and clinical practice
• Acronym: KA220 HED