Designed to offer a wealth of knowledge about the importance of decision making in healthcare practice to reduce clinical risk.  Offering a unique perspective on clinical decision making.  This book highlights important aspects such as balancing intuition and experience while raising professional issues.

Contents

1 Paramedic Practice: The Changing Patient Profile in Urgent, Emergency and Critical Care

2 Professional Issues

3 The Evolution of the Paramedic as a Critical Thinker

4 Decision Making Theory: Human Factors, Dilemmas and Conundrums

5 The Garden Path Test: Putting Decision Making into Practice –Intuition, Experience, Hypotheses, and Deduction

6 The Cognitive Continuum: Enhancing your Decision Making Skills

7 Case-Based Discussion (Case Studies, Reflection, Action Learning)