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NUFT 202 Critical Thinking Study Guide 2024
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©PREP4EXAMS@2024 [REAL-EXAM-DUMPS] Monday, July 29, 2024 12:15 PMNUFT 202 Critical Thinking Study Guide 2024
Critical Thinking in Nursing - ✔️✔️- Essential skill
- Systematic, non-linear, and logical way of thinking
- Must be willing to question and reflect on the reasoning process
- Requires knowledge, experience, and professional standards
Traits required to develop critical thinking skills - ✔️✔️- Open-minded: consider other
perspectives and options
- Inquisitive (ask why)
- Perseverance
- Look at each situation as unique with its own set of options
- Determine which assumptions are true and relevant
- Recognize clinical situations, interpret the meaning, and respond (or not)
- Avoid "cookie cutter" responses to situations (i.e., that's what we always do; another
nurse told me to do it this way, etc.)
What framework is used by nurses to apply critical thinking in nursing practice? -
✔️✔️Nursing process
Critical Thinking Competencies (General) - ✔️✔️scientific method
problem solving
decision making
Scientific Method - ✔️✔️A series of steps followed to solve problems including:
1. identifying the problem
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2. collecting data
3. formulating a hypothesis
4. testing the hypothesis
5. stating conclusions.
problem solving - ✔️✔️- evaluate a situation over time
- identify solutions
- try the chosen solution over time
- if problem still exists, try a different solution
Decision Making Process - ✔️✔️- Used for problem resolution
- A criteria (e.g., outcomes you want for the patient) aids your thought process
- Weigh options against the criteria
- Test options
- Consider the consequence(s) of each choice
- Make final decision
- Result is an informed decision based on evidence and reasoning
Critical Thinking Competencies (Specific) - ✔️✔️- diagnostic reasoning and inference
- Clinical decision making
Diagnostic reasoning and inference - ✔️✔️- analytical process for determining a patient's
health problems
- Assign meaning to behaviors and signs/symptoms
- Inference: draw conclusions from smaller related pieces of evidence
clinical decision making - ✔️✔️- Problem-solving approach that nurses use to define
patient problems and select appropriate treatment.
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