Clinical judgment for nursing programs

Real patients. Real priorities. Real clinical judgment.

A nursing practicum where students review a full patient chart, sort competing needs by urgency and decide what to do, the way nurses do at the start of a shift.

  • 33 case-based activities with answer keys
  • 228 Next Generation NCLEX-style items
  • 32 fictional patients across the lifespan
  • Runs in the browser, nothing to install
BedsideLab EHR · Handoff report
The BedsideLab training EHR: the patient storyboard beside the handoff report
33Case-based activities
228Clinical judgment items
32Patients, newborn to 86
8NGN item types
The platform

Everything for a clinical judgment course

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A training EHR for every case

Storyboard, notes, assessment, vitals, results, MAR and orders

Handoff reports you can hear

Read or listen to the off-going nurse

Next Generation items

Prioritize, matrix, bow-tie, highlight and more

Scored automatically

+/- scoring where the NCLEX uses it, with rationales

Clinical reference built in

Clinical judgment model, SBAR, priorities, ranges

Individual or team work

Assign by section or team, with practice mode

Activity
Clinical judgment items beside the patient chart
Built around clinical judgment

Every item practises a step of the model

Items follow the NCSBN Clinical Judgment Measurement Model, from noticing cues to evaluating outcomes.

  1. Recognize cues
  2. Analyze cues
  3. Prioritize hypotheses
  4. Generate solutions
  5. Take action
  6. Evaluate outcomes
Curriculum

33 cases in six units, ready on day one

Each case has a patient chart, items with rationales, a student Word activity and a faculty answer key.

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Unit 1

Communication and noticing cues

5 cases
  • Perinatal loss
  • Breaking hard news
  • De-escalation
Unit 2

Analyzing cues and prioritizing

6 cases
  • Early sepsis after surgery
  • Heart failure
  • Acute stroke
Unit 3

Taking action in acute situations

8 cases
  • Postpartum hemorrhage
  • Anaphylaxis
  • Pulmonary embolism
Unit 4

Patient-centered care and teaching

5 cases
  • Shared decision-making
  • A new ileostomy
  • Polypharmacy and falls
Unit 5

Mental health, safety and ethics

5 cases
  • Suicide risk
  • Dementia care without restraints
  • Goals of care
Unit 6

Transitions, teams and systems

4 cases
  • SBAR and escalation
  • Delegation on a busy shift
  • Infection prevention
Inside BedsideLab

See what students and faculty work with

Activity
Clinical judgment items in the chart's Activity tab

Answer the items beside the chart.

Vital signs
A vital sign flowsheet with trends and abnormal values flagged

Spot the trends that matter.

Grading
The grading page with each answer beside the key and rationale

Grade with every answer beside the key.

For colleges

One workspace for your nursing course

For colleges →
Students working together at laptops

College admin

  • Manage faculty accounts
  • Add your logo and colours
  • Follow every assignment

Faculty

  • Add students or share a class code
  • Assign cases or write your own items
  • Grade open responses with model answers

Student

  • Review a full patient chart
  • Practise every NGN item type
  • See rationales once graded
How it works

From assignment to grade in four steps

  1. Faculty assign

    Pick cases, choose a class or team, set a due date

  2. Students review the chart

    Each case opens its patient chart and handoff report

  3. Judge and submit

    Answer the items, complete the Word activity and submit

  4. Faculty grade

    Auto-scored items, open responses and the key on one page

Security & privacy

Safe by design

Fictional patients only; students never see keys or rationales before their work is graded.

How we protect your program →
  • No real patient data
  • Role-based access
  • Colleges kept separate
  • Keys and rationales stay private until graded
  • Same secure account as ChartLab
  • Nothing to install

Bring real clinical judgment practice to your program

Case-based practice for the decisions nurses make every shift.