CRITICAL THINKING CARDS FOR ATI
PROCTORED 2024/2025 EXAM WITH
100% CORRECT ANSWERS
describe critical thinking in nursing - CORRECT-ANSWERSCT is an active, orderly,
well thought-out reasoning process that guides a nurse in various approaches to
making a nursing judgement. (use knowledge, experience, problem-solving, logic,
reasoning and decision making.)
name the components of critical thinking - CORRECT-ANSWERSknowledge,
experience, critical thinking competencies, attitudes, and intellectual and
professional standards.
Critical thinking evolves through 3 levels. Name the 3 levels - CORRECT-
ANSWERSBasic
Complex
Commitment
Competence component of CT - CORRECT-ANSWERSCognitive processes a nurse
uses to make nursing judgements.
Name CT Skills used in Assessment/Data Collection - CORRECT-ANSWERSObserve
Use correct technique
Differentiate between relevant and irrelevant data
Organize, validate, categorize data
Interpret assessment data and draw a conclusion
Purpose-identify needs and identify additional data to collect based on findings.
, CT Skills used in Analysis/Data Collection (Diagnose) - CORRECT-ANSWERSIdentify
clusters and cues
Detect inferences
Recognize an actual or potential problem or risk
Avoid making judgements
Purpose-interpret collected data and diagnose and provide direction for nursing
care.
Reflection - CORRECT-ANSWERSpurposefully thinking back or recalling a situation to
discover its meaning and gain insight into the event.
Language's role in CT - CORRECT-ANSWERSClear, concise language demonstrates
focused thinking and communicating unambiguous messages and expectations.
Intuition - CORRECT-ANSWERSInner sensing that something is so
Intuition should spark the nurse to search the data to confirm or disprove the
feeling.
Basic CT - CORRECT-ANSWERSTrust the experts
Results from limited knowledge and experience and inadequate CT experience.
Complex CT - CORRECT-ANSWERSBeginning to express autonomy by analyzing and
examining data
Results from an increase in nursing knowledge, experience, intuition, and more
flexible attitudes.
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