A guide to decision-making and critical thinking in diverse healthcare practice contexts.
Professional reasoning is an essential component of health practice. To thrive in a world that
demands constant change where there is not necessarily a right or wrong answer strong
frameworks are needed to support effective decision making. Critical to safe ethical and
culturally responsive practice decisions is the ability to integrate information from research
evidence the client and the context environment. Practitioners draw from these elements
along with the expertise of others and through integration of the information with who they
are what they know and how they operate. This creates a way forward that is right for the
client applicable to the context and a good fit with themselves. This book provides such a
framework. Professional Reasoning in Healthcare: Navigating Uncertainty Using the Five Finger
Framework aims to drive a revolution in professional decision-making and critical analysis
among healthcare professionals. Built around an innovative framework for fostering thinking
this book illustrates the situated nature of learning and the uniqueness of practice decisions
to individual practitioners and clients. The simplicity of the Five Finger framework belies the
complexity of reasoning it stimulates. Written using narratives the reader is able to imagine
the situation as the thinking is made visible. It provides simple yet effective tools and
techniques for promoting reflective and reflexive thinking and for integrating the evidence
into effective decisions. It promises to help readers develop habits of critical thinking that
lead to healthier more effective decision-making processes. Readers will find: Scenarios that
bring the professional reasoning to life Tools and techniques to help translate theory into
immediate practice Strategies to enhance reflective thinking skills transformative learning
and sense-making Detailed discussion of topics including team culture person-centred practice
social learning theory cultural influences on reasoning emotional intelligence and more An
overview of transdisciplinary thinking and a complexity-based view on ethics and values
Professional Reasoning in Healthcare is ideal for healthcare professionals managers students
and educators who are charged with developing skills in making critical decisions in diverse
practice contexts.
