Appendices: Additional exercises for critical thinking and clinical reasoning
Extra Clinical Reasoning Exercises
Meihua E. 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!
A. Meet 78 yo Jeanette with sudden appearance of blurry vision and fast HR
B. Meet 5 yo Kevin in the Emergency Dept with sudden complaints of vomiting and abdominal pain
C. Meet 25 yo Serena with sudden headache, confusion, and fever
D. Meet 47 yo Braxton with nausea, abdominal pain, swollen feet, and jaundice after a morning jog
E. Meet 21 yo Rosario with abnormal discolouration on their back
F. 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
