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| critical thinking indicators |
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| evidence based descriptions of behaviors that demonstrate the knowledge, characteristics, and skills that promote critical thinking |
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| intuitive problem solving |
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| gut feeling based on accumulative knowledge |
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| scientific problem solving |
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| problrm id, data collection, hypothesis, plan, hypothesis testing, interpretation, evaluation |
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| significant information that is helpful in making decisions |
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| a rapid focused assessment used to determine potentially fatal situations |
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| assess a specific problem |
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| an assessment that is scheduled to compare a patients current status to baseline data obtained earlier |
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| problems validated by the presence of major defining caracteristics and possessing four componenets; label, definition, defining caracteristics, and related factor |
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| actual or potential health problems that may occur from disease,diagnostics, or treatment regimen. nurse works with other members of healthcare team toward resolution |
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| possible nursing diagnosis |
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| statements describing a suspected problem for which additional data are needed to confirm or rule out the suspected problem |
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| clinical judgments that an individual, family, or community is more vulnerable to develop the problem than others |
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| syndrome nursing diagnosis |
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| cluster of actual or risk nursing diagnosis that are predicted to be present because of a certain event or situation |
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| the evaluation of nursing care and patient outcomes while the patient is recieving care |
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| method of evaluating the outcomes of nursing care through patient records |
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| evaluation that focuses on measurable changes in in the health status of the patient |
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| evaluation focusing on the nature and sequence of activities carried out by nurses implementing the nursing process |
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