Chapter 10

Question 1

Critical analysis

Answer 1

A set of questions one can apply to a particular situation or idea to determine essential information and ideas and discard superfluous information and ideas

Question 2

Critical thinking

Answer 2

A cognitive process that includes creativity, problem solving, and decision making

Question 3

Clinical judgement

Answer 3

Decision making process to ascertain the right nursing action to be implemented at the appropriate time in the clients care

Question 4

Clinical reasoning

Answer 4

Cognitive process that uses thinking strategies to gather, analyze, and evaluate the relevance of client information, and decide on possible nursing actions to improve the clients physiological and psychosocial outcomes

Question 5

Deductive reasoning

Answer 5

Making specific observations from a generalization

Question 6

Inductive reasoning

Answer 6

Making generalizations from specific data

Question 7

Intuition

Answer 7

The understanding or learning of things without the conscious use of reasoning

Question 8

Nursing process

Answer 8

A systematic rational method of planning and providing nursing care

Question 9

Problem solving

Answer 9

Obtaining information that clarifies the nature of the problem and suggests possible solutions

Question 10

Socratic questioning

Answer 10

A technique one can use to look beneath the surface, recognize and examine assumptions, search for inconsistencies, examine multiple points of view, and differentiate what one knows from what one merely believes

Question 11

Creativity

Answer 11

Thinking that results in the development of new ideas and products