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Fundamentals Ch 15
Potter & Perry Ch 15 Concepts
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| critical thinking is a process acquired through experience, commitment, and an active curiosity toward learning | |
| clinical decision making involves judgment that includes critical and reflective thinking and action and application of scientific and practical logic | |
| nurses who apply critical thinking in their work focus on options for solving problems and making decisions, rather than rapidly and carelessly forming quick, single solutions | |
| following a procedure step-by-step without adjusting to a client's unique needs is an example of basic critical thinking | |
| in complex critical thinking a nurse learns that alternative, and perhaps conflicting, solutions do exist | |
| when you face a clinical problem or situation and choose a course of action from several options, you are making a clinical decision | |
| in diagnostic reasoning, you collect client data and then logically explain a clinical judgment, such as a nursing diagnosis | |
| you improve your clinical decision making by knowing your clients | |
| the nursing process is a blueprint for client care that involves both general and specific critical thinking competencies in a way that focuses on a particular client's unique needs | |
| critical thinking model combines a nurse's knowledge base, experience, competence in the nursing process, attitudes, and standards to explain how nurses make clinical judgments that are necessary for safe, effective, nursing care | |
| clinical learning experiences are necessary for you to acquire clinical decision-making skills | |
| reflective journaling gives you the opportunity to define and express the clinical experience in your own words | |
| critical thinking attitudes help you to know when more information is necessary, when information is misleading, and to recognize you own knowledge limits | |
| the use of intellectual standards during assessment ensures a complete database of information | |
| professional standards for critical thinking refer to ethical criteria for nursing judgments, evidence-based criteria for evaluation, and criteria for professional responsibility |
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