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Critical Thinking Key Terms

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clinical decision making   A problem-solving approach that nurses use to define patient problems and select appropriate treatment  
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clinical inference   The process of drawing conclusions from related pieces of evidence and previous experience with the evidence.  
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critical thinking   The active, purposeful, organized, cognitive process used to carefully examine one's thinking and the thinking of other individuals  
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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.  
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diagnostic reasoning   Process that enables an observer to assign meaning and to classify phenomena in clinical situations by integrating observations and critical thinking.  
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intuition   The inner sensing that something is so.  
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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.  
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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.  
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reflection   Process of thinking back or recalling an event to discover the meaning and purpose of that event. Useful in critical thinking.  
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scientific method   Codified sequence of steps used in the formulation, testing, evaluation, and reporting of scientific ideas.  
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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  
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