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🌱 Mental Health Clinical Decision Cards

🌱 Mental Health Clinical Decision Cards

$39.00

25 Different Mental Health Scenarios

Their patient may have traumatic flashbacks, report unusual pain, or try to elope from the unit.

Estimated Time

Dependent on the care planning assignment. Once the students draw their card, you can ask them to complete your school's care planning paperwork or use the template provided after purchase.

Level: Intermediate to Advanced

  • This deck can be used with any level student.

Unique Learning Supplement

These cards can be used as a clinical supplement, add-on to a lab activity, or a unique addition to a small group case study in lecture. There are endless possibilities!

Getting Started

How it works

Students pick a card containing abnormal assessment findings or clinical red flags.

Next

New Clinical Information

Using their assigned patient from clinical, lab or a case study, they imagine caring for them with the new information from the card.

Get to Work

Complete a Care Plan

Students create a plan of care based on this new abnormal assessment that includes their nursing interventions, teaching plan or evaluation techniques.

Great work!

Upon Completion

Students have demonstrated clinical judgment and decision-making when presented with abnormal or unexpected findings.

Quickly and easily create clinical reasoning scenarios!

This activity is easy to implement because you already have a patient ready! Because students have been assigned a clinical patient at the hospital or in the lab, they already have a medical history, medications, and an initial diagnosis. You are just adding some abnormal assessment findings to improve their critical thinking 😉

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🩺Designed to mirror nursing care at the bedside, students can gather additional assessment data, organize and identify priority problems, and carry out nursing interventions.

✅ Perfect for stable clinical patients or for introducing students to adverse patient outcomes that you may not always see at clinical. Patient complications can be rare on clinical days, but you can help students build the foundational thinking skills to think through abnormal assessment findings.

Care Plan Download

A PDF download or Canva template is available with purchase. You can use as is or modify to fit your care plan model.

Looking for more examples?

Here are a few more cards students will use during the activity:

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