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Clinical judgment: The last frontier for evaluation
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Nursing educators and preceptors often find it difficult to evaluate prelicensure students' clinical judgment development. Clinical judgment is critical to excellent patient care decisions and outcomes. The Lasater Clinical Judgment Rubric, a validated, evidence-based clinical judgment rubric, is described as a tool that offers a common language for students, nurse educators, and preceptors and a trajectory for students' clinical judgment development. The rubric has been used to provide feedback for reflective journals and a means for self-evaluation in addition to a guide for formulating higher level thought questions to shape students' thinking like a nurse.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Lasater, K.
- Affiliations
- Oregon Health & Science University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Lasater, Kathie
- ORCID
- Lasater, Kathie
- Venue
- Nurse Education in Practice
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2011-03
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 86-92
- ISSN
- 1471-5953 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1994296350
- Cited by
- 179
- References
- 66
- Citations by year
- 2026: 7 · 2025: 12 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 12 · 2021: 10 · 2020: 19 · 2019: 13 · 2018: 13 · 2017: 11 · 2016: 21 · 2015: 19 · 2014: 10 · 2013: 5 · 2012: 7
- FWCI
- 6.97
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Nurse Education in Practice (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Family Practice › Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills
- Social Sciences › Education › Innovations in Medical Education
- Health Sciences › Nursing › Research and Theory › Health Education and Validation
- Keywords
- clinical judgment, Lasater Clinical Judgment Rubric, prelicensure nursing students, nursing education, clinical preceptors, reflective journals, student self-assessment, feedback, clinical reasoning
- MeSH terms
- Clinical Competence, Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate, Humans, Judgment, Preceptorship, Self-Assessment, Students, Nursing, Nursing Education Research
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