Appendices: Additional exercises for critical thinking and clinical reasoning
Extra Clinical Reasoning Exercises
Eva M. Su; Mena Burr; and Jennifer Kong
These extra exercises in clinical reasoning are of different levels of difficulty, depending on the amount of training the learner has experienced. Thus, when possible, the authors have tried to introduce the clinical reasoning process in a logical order to help with learners’ development, regardless of their starting point!
Meet Jeanette with sudden appearance of blurry vision and fast HR
Meet 5 yo Kevin in the Emergency Dept with sudden complaints of vomiting and abdominal pain
Meet 25 yo Serena with sudden headache, confusion, and fever
Meet 47 yo Braxton with nausea, abdominal pain, swollen feet, and yellow skin after a morning jog
Meet 21 yo Rosario with abnormal discolouration on thier back
Interventions for complaints of short of breath
Recall the exercise where you matched respiratory disorders with the pathophysiology of gas exchange (below)
Now, work out which interventions would be appropriate for each condition
