P&P Chapter 15 Critical Thinking

Question 1

Knowledge based on research or clinical expertise that makes you an informed critical thinker.

Answer 1

Evidence-based Knowledge

Question 2

A continuous process characterized by open-mindedness, continual inquiry, and perseverance, combined with a willingness to look at each unique patient situation and determine which identified assumptions are true and relevant.

Answer 2

Critical Thinking

Question 3

Careful reasoning so that you choose the options for the best client outcomes on the basis of the client’s condition and the priority of the problem

Answer 3

Clinical decision making

Question 4

Steps of critical thinking

Answer 4

1. Analysis
2. Evaluation
3. Making conclusion

Question 5

Determining relevance of assessment data

Answer 5

Divergent thinking

Question 6

Defining terms noting similarities and differences

Answer 6

Clarifying

Question 7

Critical Thinking Skills

Answer 7

1. Divergent thinking
2. Reasoning
3. Clarifying
4. Reflection

Question 8

Occurs when you have time to think about what happened

Answer 8

Reflection

Question 9

Multiple solutions are acceptable. Reflect on your own judgments; have cognitive maturity.

Answer 9

Maturity

Question 10

Five components of Critical thinking

Answer 10

1. Knowledge base
2. Experience
3. Nursing process competencies
4. Attitudes
5. Standards

Question 11

Critical thinking Competences

Answer 11

1. Scientific method
2. Decision making
3. Clinical desicion making
4. Problem solving
5. Diagnostic reasoning and inference
6. Nursing process as a competency

Question 12

Ability to discriminate facts

Answer 12

Reasoning

Question 13

Seek the true meaning of a situation. Be courageous, honest, and objective about asking questions .

Answer 13

True seeking

Question 14

Be tolerant of different views; be sensitive to the possibility of your own prejudices; respect the right of others to have different opinions.

Answer 14

Open-mindedness

Question 15

Trust in your own reasoning processes.

Answer 15

Self-confdence

Question 16

Be eager to acquire knowledge and learn explanations even when applications of the knowledge are not immediately clear. Value learning for learning’s sake.

Answer 16

Inquisitiveness

Question 17

Learner trusts that experts have the right answers for every problem.

Answer 17

Basic critical thinking

Question 18

Analyze potentially problematic situations; anticipate possible results or consequences; value reason; use evidence-based knowledge.

Answer 18

Analyticity

Question 19

Thinking is concrete and based on a set of rules or principles.

Answer 19

Basic critical thinking

Question 20

Begin to separate themselves from experts.

Answer 20

Complex critical thinking

Question 21

A nurse learns that alternative and perhaps conflicting solutions exist.

Answer 21

Complex critical thinking

Question 22

They analyze and examine choices more independently.

Answer 22

Complex critical thinking

Question 23

Sistematic ordered approach to gathering data and solving problems.

Answer 23

Scientific method

Question 24

At this level a person anticipates when to make choices without assistance from others and accepts accountability for decisions made.

Answer 24

Commitment

Question 25

At this level you choose an action or belief based on the available alternatives and support it.

Answer 25

Commitment

Question 26

Obtain information and then use the information plus what youn already know o find a solution.

Answer 26

Problem solving

Question 27

Be organized, focused; work hard in any inquiry.

Answer 27

Sistematicity

Question 28

Focuses on problem resolution

Answer 28

Decision making

Question 29

Determining a patient health status after you have assigned meaning to the behaviors and symptoms presented.

Answer 29

Diagnostic reasoning

Question 30

Process to drawing conclusions from related pieces of evidences.

Answer 30

Inference

Question 31

Refer to policy and procedures manuals to review steps of a skill.

Answer 31

Responsability

Question 32

Careful reasoning so the best options are chosen for the best outcomes.

Answer 32

Clinical decision making

Question 33

Speak with conviction and always be prepared to perform care safety.

Answer 33

Confidence

Question 34

Read the nursing literature

Answer 34

Thinking independently

Question 35

Listen to both sides in any discussion.

Answer 35

Fairness

Question 36

Be willing to recommend alternatives aroaches to nursing care.

Answer 36

Risk taking

Question 37

Nursing process

Answer 37

Five step clinical thinking approach

Question 38

Take time to be thorough and manage your time effectively

Answer 38

Discipline

Question 39

Be cautious of an easy answer k for a pattern and find a solution

Answer 39

Perseverance

Question 40

Look for differents approaches if intervension are not working

Answer 40

Creativity

Question 41

Explore and learn about the patient to make appropiate clinical judgments.

Answer 41

Curiosity

Question 42

Do not compromise nursing standards or honesty in delivering nursing care.

Answer 42

Integrity

Question 43

Recognize when you need more information to make a decision.

Answer 43

Humility

Question 44

Guideline or principle for rational thought

Answer 44

Intellectual standards

Question 45

Evidences based critical criteria judgment use for evaluation and criteria for professional responsability.

Answer 45

Professional standards

Question 46

Process of purposefully thinking back or recalling a situation to discovers its purpose or meaning.

Answer 46

Reflective journaling

Question 47

Visual representation of patient problems and intervention that shows their relation to one another.

Answer 47

Concept mapping