Includes bibliographical references (p. 363-365) and index.

Contents: Overview of thinking, doing and the nursing process: Thinking -- Doing -- Thinking and doing and the nursing process: the "how" of great nursing -- Application of thinking and doing in the nursing process -- Nursing conclusions -- Major nursing conclusions of assessment -- Details of thinking and the nursing process: Health detectives: data collection and data analysis -- Making more sense of clues: cluster analysis -- Designing, doing and determining quality of care: a.k.a. planning, implementing and evaluating -- Communicating thinking and the nursing process: Written and verbal communication of thinking and doing -- Consequences of thinking and not thinking when documenting -- Thinking through a complex patient situation: Assessing a complex patient situation -- Designing, doing and determining quality of care for actual problems with multiple related factors -- Designing, doing and determining quality of care for potential (high risk) problems -- Designing, doing, and determining quality of care for wellness diagnoses, interdisciplinary problems, and problems for referral -- Thinking into the future: from linear equation to a paradigm of great nursing --