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Integrated Nursing Practice

Introduction to Clinical Reasoning and Decision-Making

Clinical reasoning and decision-making are the mechanisms of thought and techniques that the nurses use to interpret knowledge and distinguish between options to recognize medical issues in consideration for medical diagnosis and evaluation of findings and treatments in clinical practice (Hawkins et al., 2019). In the given essay two case studies of different patients of different age have been discussed who is suffering from some health conditions and similar symptoms. The nurses use clinical reasoning and decision-making to address the health condition of the patient that is an imbalance of fluid and electrolytes. Excessive quantities of fluids in the body or dehydration may result from an excess of fluids and electrolytes. Mostly as a consequence of a transition in body processes, serious illness, certain drugs, or an underlying disease, this will occur. Electrolytes co....