📚 EP #08: Unfolding Case Studies Promote Clinical Judgment
💬 What if ...
What if you could bridge the 'preparation-to-practice' gap by using unfolding cases to make students more prepared to enter the nursing profession before graduation?
🔑 Key Insight
Integrating 3-4 unfolding case studies into each core didactic course (Fundamentals, Med-Surg I, and Med-Surg II) improved students' clinical judgment and significantly improved their focused observation skills.
Providing consistent, incremental exposure to unfolding case studies helps students better differentiate relevant from irrelevant clinical cues than traditional static cases do.
🌟 Why it matters
With only 23% of new graduates demonstrating entry-level clinical judgment, this method provides a scalable classroom strategy to meet Next Generation NCLEX (NGN) requirements.
It specifically targets the 'noticing' phase of Tanner’s Clinical Judgment Model, which is the foundational first step in safe patient care.
🔗 Link and Reference
Interested in the full article?
- Liu, W. (2024). Effect of unfolding case-based learning on clinical judgment among undergraduate nursing students. Nurse Educator, 49(3), 141-146.
Looking for an interactive unfolding case study?
Check out the unfolding case studies as a card deck!