NURS 8410 Week 2: Applying Complex
Reasoning Strategies
NURS 8410 Week 2: Applying Complex Reasoning Strategies
You likely make countless decisions in your day-to-day practice—
many with significant consequences. How do you gather and
assess information? Evaluate its significance? Weigh possible
actions? As a DNP-prepared nurse, it is essential to engage in selfreflection and further your awareness of how your decisionmaking processes and use of professional judgment can promote
the application of effective practices in your specialty area.
Reasoning strategies guide current practice as well as the
development and adoption of new, innovative approaches to
improve practice in the specialty areas—a topic that will be
explored in depth during upcoming weeks of this course.
This week you begin to develop your small-scale Evidence-Based
Practice (EBP) Project in your practicum setting. In Application 1—
the first in a series of assignments in which you will convey your
insights and analysis of the EBP Project—you are asked to identify
an issue related to practice in which an outcome is different from
what would be expected according to the research literature. This
issue provides the foundation for future development of the
projec
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NURS 8410 Week 2: Applying Complex Reasoning Strategies
NURS 8410 Week 2: Applying Complex Reasoning Strategies
You likely make countless decisions in your day-to-day practice—
many with significant consequences. How do you gather and
assess information? Evaluate its significance? Weigh possible
actions? As a DNP-prepared nurse, it is essential to engage in selfreflection and further your awareness of how your decisionmaking processes and use of professional judgment can promote
the application of effective practices in your specialty area.
Reasoning strategies guide current practice as well as the
development and adoption of new, innovative approaches to
improve practice in the specialty areas—a topic that will be
explored in depth during upcoming weeks of this course.
This week you begin to develop your small-scale Evidence-Based
Practice (EBP)
