Critical Thinking Flashcards
What is Critical thinking?
A combination of reasoned thinking, openness to alternatives, and ability to reflect, and a desire to seek truth.
What is Evidence Based Practice?
A research based method for judging and using nursing interventions.
What are traits of critical thinkers?
Flexible, nonjudgmental, inquisitive, honest, and interested in seeking truth.
Why is critical thinking so important?
Important component of critical judgment, nurses also need problem-solving, abilities/clinical reasoning, critical thinking, plus clinical reasoning equals clinical judgment.
What is theoretical knowledge?
Knowing why, consists of information, facts, principles, and evidence-based theories in nursing and related disciplines.
What is self knowledge?
Self understanding
What is nursing process?
Nursing process is a systematic problem-solving process that guides all nursing actions.
What are the six phases of the nursing process?
Assessment, analysis/diagnosis, planning outcomes, planning, interventions, implementation, and evaluation.
What is assessment?
Obtaining information from many sources.
What is analysis/diagnosis?
Identifying the clients health needs based on careful review of your assessment data.
What is planning outcomes?
Working with the client to decide goals for your care. That is the client outcomes you want to achieve through your nursing activities.
What is planning interventions?
Develop a list of possible interventions based on your nursing knowledge, then choose those most likely to help the client to achieve the stated goals.
What is implementation?
During implementation, you will carry out or delegate the actions that you previously planned.
What is evaluation?
You determine whether the desired outcomes have been achieved and judge whether your actions have successfully treated or prevented the clients health problems.
What is Caring?
Always specific for each client, thinking and acting in ways that preserve human dignity.