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Ch.13 Blended Comp.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Blended Competencies | the set of intellectual, interpersonal, technical, and ethical/legal capacities needed to practice professional nursing |
| Caring | moral imperative that guides nursing praxis (education, practice, and research); action and competencies that aim toward the good and welfare of others |
| Clinical Judgement | the result or observed outcome of critical thinking and decision making |
| Clinical Reasoning | ways of thinking about patient care issues (determining, preventing, and managing patient problems); for reasoning about other clinical issues (e.g., teamwork, collaboration, and streamlining work flow); nurses usually use critical thinking |
| Concept Mapping | instructional strategy that requires learners to identify, graphically display, and link key concepts |
| Creative Thinking | a process involving imagination, intuition, and spontaneity—factors that underpin the art of nursing |
| Critical Thinking Indicators | evidence-based descriptions of behaviors that demonstrate the knowledge, characteristics, and skills that promote critical thinking in clinical practice |
| Decision Making | purposeful, goal-directed effort applied in a systematic way to make a choice among alternatives |
| Intuitive Problem Solving | direct understanding of a situation based on a background of experience, knowledge, and skill that makes expert decision making possible |
| Nursing Process | five-step systematic method for giving patient care; involves assessing, diagnosing, planning, implementing, and evaluating |
| Person-Centered Care | model of patient care based on holistic roots in which the nurse or other caregiver uses every clinical encounter to assess how the person is doing and to communicate respect, compassion, and care |
| Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) | stands for Quality and Safety Education for Nurses, a project for preparing future nurses with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes (KSAs) necessary to continuously improve the quality and safety of the health care systems within which they work |
| Reflective Practice | occurs when the caregiver has a profound awareness of self, and one’s own biases, prejudgments, prejudices, and assumptions, and understands how these may affect the therapeutic relationship |
| Scientific Problem Solving | process that involves (1) problem identification, (2) data collection, (3) hypothesis formulation, (4) plan of action, (5) hypothesis testing, (6) interpretation of results, and (7) evaluation resulting in conclusion or revision of the study |
| Standards for Critical Thinking | clear, precise, specific, accurate, relevant, plausible, consistent, logical, deep, broad, complete, significant, adequate (for the purpose), and fair |
| Therapeutic Relationship | relationship between the caregiver and patient that is focused on promoting or restoring health and well-being of the patient |
| Thoughtful Practice | the care of a patient by a clinician who utilizes clinical reasoning and reflective practice to guide thoughtful actions and person-centered processes of care |
| Trial and error Problem Solving | method of problem solving that involves testing any number of solutions until one is found that works for that particular problem |
| Critical Thinking | evidence-based descriptions of behaviors that demonstrate the knowledge, characteristics, and skills that promote critical thinking in clinical practice |