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| Critical thinking is a continuous process characterized by |
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| open-mindedness, continual inquiry, and perseverance, combined with a willingness to look at each unique patient situation and determine which identified assumptions are true and relevant (Heffner and Rudy, 2008). |
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| Critical thinking encompasses the following |
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| Recognizing that an issue exists, analyzing information, evaluating information, and making conclusions |
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| Nurses will use ? & ? to make choices |
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| What helps you become a critical thinker? |
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| having evidenced based knowledge |
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| Critical thinking is aquired through |
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| experience, commitment, and active curiosity. |
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| Clinical decision making requires |
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| What separates professional nurses from technical and ancillary staff? |
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| clinical decision making skills |
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| Be orderly in data collection. Look for patterns to categorize data (e.g., nursing diagnoses [see Chapter 17]). Clarify any data you are uncertain about. |
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| Be open-minded as you look at information about a patient. Do not make careless assumptions. Do the data reveal what you believe is true, or are there other options? |
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| Look at the meaning and significance of findings. Are there relationships between findings? Do the data about the patient help you see that a problem exists? |
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| : Look at all situations objectively. Use criteria (e.g., expected outcomes, pain characteristics, learning objectives) to determine results of nursing actions. Reflect on your own behavior. |
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| Support your findings and conclusions. Use knowledge and experience to choose strategies to use in the care of patients. |
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Reflect on your experiences. Identify ways that you can improve your own performance. What will make you believe that you have been successful? |
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| What are the 6 Critical Thinking Skills |
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| Interpretation, Analysis, Inference, Evaluation, Explanation, Self-regulation |
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| What are the 7 concepts for a Critical Thinker? |
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| Truth seeking, open-mindedness, analytic apporach, systemic approach, self-confidence, inquisitiveness, maturity |
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| seek the true meaning of a situation. be courageous, honest, and objective about asking questions |
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| be tolerant of different views; be sensitive to the possibilty of your own prejudices; respect the right of others to have different opinions |
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| analyze potentially problematic situations; anticipate possible results for consequences; value reason; use evidence-based knowledge |
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| be organized and focused; work hard in any inquiry |
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| trust in your own reasoning processes |
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| be eager to acquire knowledge and learn explanations, even when applications of knowledge are immediately clear. Value learning for learning's sake. |
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| multiple solutions are acceptable. Reflect on your own judgements; have cognitive maturity |
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| What are some critical thinking competencies? |
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| Scientific Method, Problem solving, Decision Making, Diagnostic Reasoning and inference, Clinical Decision Making, Nursing Process as a competency |
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| nurse collects patient data, and analyzes them to determine the patient's problems or health status |
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| a nurse identifies a patient's problem and selects a nursing intervention |
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| What are five components of Critical Thinking? |
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| Knowledge Base, Experience, Nursing Process Competencies, Attitudes, Standards |
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| drawn from nursing school education, as well as from knowledge obtained from basic sciences, humanities, and behavorial science |
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| obtained from clinical situations |
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| What are 2 standards that should be considered when thinking critically? |
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| intellectual and professional |
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| What are the 11 attitudes a nurse needs? |
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| Confidence, Independence, Fairness, Responsibility, Risk taking, Discipline, Perseverance, Creativity, Curioisity, Integrity, Humility |
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