Explain The Core Skills Of Clinical Decision Making

The Core Skills of Clinical Decision Making
1. Pattern recognition: learning from experience.
2. Critical Thinking: removing emotion from our reasoning, being 'sceptical', with the ability to clarify goals, examine assumptions, be open-minded, recognise personal attitudes and bias, able to evaluate evidence.
3. Communication Skills like active listening, information provision that is the ability to provide information in a comprehensible way to allow patients or clients, their carers and family to be involved in the decision making process.
4. Evidence-based approaches: using available evidence and best practice guidelines as part of the decision making process.
5. Team work: using the gathered evidence to enlist help, support and advice