Advanced Clinical Reasoning in Practice

About this subject

• What you'll learn

  On successful completion of this subject, students will be able to:

  1. Develop and justify a range of illness scripts appropriate to advanced clinical practice.
  2. Discuss common clinical reasoning models, their strengths and weaknesses and how they inform decision-making in advanced clinical practice.
  3. Justify and demonstrate the process of and limitation to clinical reasoning, using appropriate clinical decision-making models.
  4. Reflect on and evaluate own practice against principles of evidence-based practice; best evidence, clinician expertise and the interconnection and collaboration with patients, and their impacts on safety, quality of care, patient experience and clinical outcomes.

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• Description

• Assessments

• Textbooks

• About University of Tasmania

Entry requirements

Part of a degree

To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:

Core

• TAS-CUC-GDI-2026 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Community and Urgent Care)
• TAS-CCR-GDI-2026 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Critical Care and Retrieval)
• TAS-CUC-MAS-2026 - Master of Advanced Practice (Community and Urgent Care)
• TAS-CCR-MAS-2026 - Master of Advanced Practice (Critical Care and Retrieval)

Elective

• TAS-ADP-GCE-2026 - Graduate Certificate in Advanced Practice
• TAS-AQS-GDI-2026 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice ( Applied Quality and Safety)
• TAS-CDP-GDI-2026 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Communicable Disease Prevention)
• TAS-SCL-GDI-2026 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Supply Chain and Logistics)
• TAS-APD-GDI-2026 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Dementia)
• TAS-ADH-GDI-2026 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Digital Health)
• TAS-APG-GDI-2026 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Governance)
• TAS-HSI-GDI-2026 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Health Service Improvement)
• TAS-APH-GDI-2026 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Healthcare Education)
• TAS-AMS-GDI-2026 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Medication Safety)
• TAS-AOP-GDI-2026 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Organisational Performance)
• TAS-AOR-GDI-2026 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Organisational Resilience)
• TAS-AWP-GDI-2026 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Workplace Psychology)
• TAS-AQS-MAS-2026 - Master of Advanced Practice ( Applied Quality and Safety)
• TAS-CDP-MAS-2026 - Master of Advanced Practice (Communicable Disease Prevention)
• TAS-APD-MAS-2026 - Master of Advanced Practice (Dementia)
• TAS-ADH-MAS-2026 - Master of Advanced Practice (Digital Health)
• TAS-APG-MAS-2026 - Master of Advanced Practice (Governance)
• TAS-HSI-MAS-2026 - Master of Advanced Practice (Health Service Improvement)
• TAS-APH-MAS-2026 - Master of Advanced Practice (Healthcare Education)
• TAS-AMS-MAS-2026 - Master of Advanced Practice (Medication Safety)
• TAS-AOP-MAS-2026 - Master of Advanced Practice (Organisational Performance)
• TAS-AOR-MAS-2026 - Master of Advanced Practice (Organisational Resilience)
• TAS-SCL-MAS-2026 - Master of Advanced Practice (Supply Chain and Logistics)
• TAS-AWP-MAS-2026 - Master of Advanced Practice (Workplace Psychology)

Additional requirements

• Other requirements - Teaching Arrangement: 6 hrs weekly individual study including online learning materials.

Study load

0.125 EFTSL

This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.

Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.

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