Details Title: 3209 Description: Critical Thinking Total Flash Cards: 14 Created: 03/31/2009 09:52:41		New Users: To study from this flashcard set, or to create your own your own study flash cards, REGISTER HERE. Existing Users: CLICK HERE. Additional Biology Flashcards
Cards in this set: Term Knowledge base Definition A nurse’s knowledge base is drawn from nursing school education as well as from knowledge obtained from basic sciences, humanities, and behavioral sciences. Term Experience Definition Obtained from clinical situations, actually working with patients and their families Term The Nursing Process and Critical Thinking Definition Critical thinking and the nursing process are inseparable. As a new nurse, you will rely on the nursing process to guide your practice. Term Standards Definition Finally, there are two standards to consider when thinking critically: intellectual and professional. An intellectual standard is a guideline or principle for rationale thought. Professional standards refer to ethical criteria for nursing judgments, evidence-based criteria used for evaluation, and criteria for professional responsibility. Term Scientific Method Definition an approach to seeking the truth or verifying that a set of facts agrees with reality. Nurse researchers use blank when testing a research questions in nursing practice situations. Term ·        Problem Solving Definition invlovles evaluating the solution over time to be sure that it is still effective Term ·     Clinical   Decision Making Definition when a nurse approaces a clinical problem, the nurse collaborates with the client to make a decision that identifies the problem and then choses those nursing interventions that will meet the mutally established goals of care Term ·        Decision making Definition a person faces a problem or situation and must choose a course of action from serveral potions, the person is engaged in blank Term ·        Diagnostic Reasoning and Inference Definition nurse receiveds information about a client in a particular clinical sutiation, blank begins. it is a process of determing a client's health status after the nurse assigns meaning to the behaviors, physical signs and symptoms presented by the clietn. Term ·        Nursing Process as a Competency Definition consistes of five steps, assessment, diagnosis planning implemmentation and evaluation Term Knowledge base Definition A nurse’s knowledge base is drawn from nursing school education as well as from knowledge obtained from basic sciences, humanities, and behavioral sciences. Term Experience Definition Obtained from clinical situations, actually working with patients and their families Term The Nursing Process and Critical Thinking Definition - Critical thinking and the nursing process are inseparable. As a new nurse, you will rely on the nursing process to guide your practice. Term Standards Definition - Finally, there are two standards to consider when thinking critically: intellectual and professional. An intellectual standard is a guideline or principle for rationale thought. Professional standards refer to ethical criteria for nursing judgments, evidence-based criteria used for evaluation, and criteria for professional responsibility.