"An Australian text designed to address the key area of clinical reasoning in nursing practice. The 3rd edition provides a series of authentic, engaging and meaningful scenarios that guide nursing students through the clinical reasoning process, while challenging them to think critically and creatively about the nursing care they provide. It promotes deep learning and opportunities to rehearse how to respond to real clinical situations in ways that are both person-centred and clinically astute."--Publisher's website.

Chapter 1 Clinical reasoning: What it is and why it matters / Tracy Levett-Jones and Judith Smith -- Chapter 2 Caring for a person experiencing an adverse drug reaction / Tracy Levett-Jones and Judith Smith -- Chapter 3 Caring for a person with fluid and electrolyte imbalance / Tracy Levett-Jones and Peter Sinclair -- Chapter 4 Caring for a person experiencing pain / Tracy Levet-Jones and Bernadette Bugeja -- Chapter 5 Caring for a child with type 1 diabetes / Loretto Quinney, Kerry Reid-Searl and Veronica Mills -- Chapter 6 Caring for a person experiencing respiratory distress and hypoxia / Amanda Wilson and Tyson Perrin -- Chapter 7 Caring for a person with a cardiac condition / Samantha Jakimowicz and Belinda Causby -- Chapter 8 Caring for a person with an acquired brain injury / Jacqui Pich and Rochelle Firth -- Chapter 9 Caring for a person receiving blood component therapies / Elizabeth Newman and Vivienne Chau -- Chapter 10 Caring for a person with sepsis / Natalie Govind and Lesley Fitzpatrick -- Chapter 11 Caring for a person with substance dependence and complex post-traumatic distress syndrome / Mark Goodhew and Tracy Robinson -- Chapter 12 Caring for a person with Parkinson's disease / Rachel Rossiter and Vincent Carroll -- Chapter 13 Caring for a person experiencing and acute psychotic episode / Anna Treloar and Peter Ross -- Chapter 14 Caring for an older person with altered cognition / Sharyn Hunter and Jamie Gills -- Chapter 15 Caring for a young person with a disability / Stephen Guinea, Jessica McKirkle and Christine Imms -- Chapter 16 Caring for a person requiring palliative care / Joanne Lewis and Deborah Parker -- Chapter 17 Caring for a person who is refusing treatment / Lorinda Palmer.