Dilemmas and Decision Making – serie

Looking for a book that will help you hone your decision-making skills as a nursing student or practitioner? Look no further than this innovative volume. It provides a collection of engaging fictional scenarios that explore how nurses tackle clinical dilemmas, weigh up options and make good decisions based on a sound understanding of theory related to practice.More than just a simple collection of case studies, this book offers a comprehensive thinking framework that will allow you to truly understand how theory can be applied to practice. It provides opportunities to discuss clinical dilemmas in a safe space in which you can explore your own values and beliefs, apply professional knowledge and consider new approaches to nursing. Featured in these clinical scenarios are professional dilemmas you may not have yet encountered in your practice to help you uncover new methods of decision-making. It explores best practice and takes account of other professional perspectives, including challenges and barriers to interdisciplinary working. After using this book you will feel confident in your problem-solving and decision-making abilities.

Explores how policing students and police officers might apply theory to tackle dilemmas demonstrated through true to life scenarios.Relevant for those undertaking the Professional Policing degree, Apprenticeships or the Degree Holder Entry Programme, as well as their academic and work-based educators, it examines the complexities faced on a daily basis by frontline officers. A range of fictional realistic case studies are presented in order to highlight contemporary challenges in the modern policing landscape. These are unpicked through discussion and reflective questions, exploring how decisions are made based on theoretical understanding and practical considerations in context. Key themes within these scenarios include procedural justice, legitimacy, organisational culture, prioritisation of workload, objectivity and neutrality, human rights and values. The book provides students and their educators with the opportunities to discuss policing dilemmas and decision-making in a safe space.

This book presents realistic cancer-related clinical dilemmas and provides guidance on how to assess options and make ethical decisions.The provided case studies explore how decisions are made in ethically and sometimes morally challenging situations in practice. Approaches to care delivery focus on the perspective of the individual in terms of their practical, social, psychological, and emotional needs. Considerations are integrated with a range of solutions-focused perspectives to allow readers to discuss clinical dilemmas in a safe space while applying and expanding their professional knowledge.This book provides an invaluable resource for any healthcare student, clinical supervisor, academic educator, and anybody working within the cancer setting.

This book presents realistic cancer-related clinical dilemmas and provides guidance on how to assess options and make ethical decisions.The provided case studies explore how decisions are made in ethically and sometimes morally challenging situations in practice. Approaches to care delivery focus on the perspective of the individual in terms of their practical, social, psychological, and emotional needs. Considerations are integrated with a range of solutions-focused perspectives to allow readers to discuss clinical dilemmas in a safe space while applying and expanding their professional knowledge.This book provides an invaluable resource for any healthcare student, clinical supervisor, academic educator, and anybody working within the cancer setting.

This book presents a variety of dilemmas that highlight the breadth and complexity of speech and language therapy and provides guidance for ethically informed clinical decision making.Realistic case studies written by a range of speech and language therapists from around the globe examine the decision-making process in speech and language therapy, providing a careful balance of clinical knowledge and expertise along with addressing the priorities and needs of the individual, and wider ethical considerations. Students and educators can debate real dilemmas faced by clinicians, taking diverse values and theoretical models into account to foster students’ learning development.This book is an invaluable resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students and lecturers in speech and language therapy programmes and clinical educators on placement. Charities working with children and adults with communication disorders may also benefit from this resource in training and assessments.

This book presents a variety of dilemmas that highlight the breadth and complexity of speech and language therapy and provides guidance for ethically informed clinical decision making.Realistic case studies written by a range of speech and language therapists from around the globe examine the decision-making process in speech and language therapy, providing a careful balance of clinical knowledge and expertise along with addressing the priorities and needs of the individual, and wider ethical considerations. Students and educators can debate real dilemmas faced by clinicians, taking diverse values and theoretical models into account to foster students’ learning development.This book is an invaluable resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students and lecturers in speech and language therapy programmes and clinical educators on placement. Charities working with children and adults with communication disorders may also benefit from this resource in training and assessments.

Dilemmas and Decision Making in Domestic Abuse enables readers to follow health and social care practitioner’s thinking processes to unpack a range of elements of domestic abuse situations and develop a systematic approach to decision making.Domestic abuse can be defined as a pattern of behaviour in any relationship, that is used to gain or maintain power and control an intimate partner. Each chapter presents a scenario with an annotated framework for thinking through key ideas, which allows the readers to explore the breadth of complex factors associated with domestic abuse. Readers will learn how to assist victims, ensure their safety, and be vigilant and open to modes of abuse that sit outside the stereotypical occurrences in a safe and ethical manner. Students on health and social care, social work, nursing and counselling courses will explore how to address difficult conversations in their professional environments, challenge their thinking and encourage ethical decision making.Current practitioners in these fields will benefit from the opportunity to explore professional dilemmas they may have not yet witnessed in their own practice-learning experiences and uncover new theories that will help with future decision making.