Mr.Westington,35,enters a clinic reporting "extreme" low back pain after helping to move a heavy object.He is pale and diaphoretic and walks bent at the waist.Before taking vital signs,the nurse projects that his blood pressure and heart rate will be elevated.This is an example of which of the following?

A) Fact
B) Inference
C) Judgment
D) Opinion

Clinical Reasoning

A thought process used to assess a client’s evolving situation and health care concerns, gather data, and make decisions to solve problems within a particular clinical context to achieve better client outcomes.

Reflective Practice

A nurse’s ability to take information about experience, knowledge, or skills levels based on assessments, analyze this information, and determine how to act upon this information in the future.

Clinical Judgment

The interpretation or conclusion about a client’s needs, concerns, or health problems, or the decision to take action (or not), use or modify standard approaches, or improvise new ones as deemed appropriate by the client’s response.