A nurse walks into a room and finds a patient to be severely confused.The nurse examines and observes the patient closely and thinks about other situations with severely confused patients before making a nursing diagnosis.Which skill is the nurse using?

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Part of diagnostic reasoning is clinical inference,the process of drawing conclusions from related pieces of evidence and previous experience with the evidence.An inference involves forming patterns of information from data before making a nursing diagnosis.Reflective writing requires you to record your clinical experiences in your own words in a personal journal.Intuition is an inner sensing or "gut feeling" about something.Accountability refers to being answerable for one's actions.

A Nurse Walks into a Room and Finds a Patient