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Fundamentals Ch.8
Critical Thinking Key Terms
Term | Definition |
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clinical decision making | A problem-solving approach that nurses use to define patient problems and select appropriate treatment |
clinical inference | The process of drawing conclusions from related pieces of evidence and previous experience with the evidence. |
critical thinking | The active, purposeful, organized, cognitive process used to carefully examine one's thinking and the thinking of other individuals |
decision making | Process involving critical appraisal of information that results from recognition of a problem and ends with the generation, testing, and evaluation of a conclusion. Comes at the end of critical thinking. |
diagnostic reasoning | Process that enables an observer to assign meaning and to classify phenomena in clinical situations by integrating observations and critical thinking. |
intuition | The inner sensing that something is so. |
nursing process | Systematic problem-solving method by which nurses individualize care for each patient. The five steps of the nursing process are assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation. |
problem solving | Methodical, systematic approach to explore conditions and develop solutions, including analysis of data, determination of causative factors, and selection of appropriate actions to reverse or eliminate the problem. |
reflection | Process of thinking back or recalling an event to discover the meaning and purpose of that event. Useful in critical thinking. |
scientific method | Codified sequence of steps used in the formulation, testing, evaluation, and reporting of scientific ideas. |
workaround | Patterns & actions that health care staff use to bypass either safety steps in procedures or safety features of medical equipment. Workarounds temporarily fix a problem the system remains unaltered and continues to present potential safety hazards for pts |