Professional Reasoning in Healthcare - Navigating Uncertainty Using the Five Finger Framework

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 crit ical 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 t opics 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 valuesProfessional 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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis:

Chapter 1: Synthesising Knowledge for Situated Practice: The Five Finger FrameworkHistorical influences on professional reasoningHelen Jeffery, Susan RyanChapter 2: The Five Finger Framework: Development and RationaleFostering thinking skillsHenk Roodt, Linda RobertsonChapter 3: Grasping the whole: the practitioner perspectivePractitioner influences on professional decisionsSian Griffiths, Kim Raey, Helen JefferyChapter 4: Using the expertise of others: many hands make light workAccessing knowledge from others to inform professional decisionsElizabeth MartinChapter 5: Walking Hand in Hand: Collaborative practiceEliciting and incorporating client perspectivesHelen JefferyChapter 6: Knowing the context like the back of your handContextual influences on professional reasoningHelen JefferyChapter 7: Letting the research lend a handEvaluating, synthesizing and implementing knowledgesLuciana Blaga, Linda RobertsonChapter 8: Synthesising World ViewsTransdisciplinarity and the Five Finger FrameworkHenk RoodtChapter 9: Handy tools for implementing the Five Finger FrameworkIdeas, activities and tips for practice and education settings