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.
What are the five components of caring?
Knowing, being with, doing for, enabling, maintaining belief.
Knowing
Striving to understand what an event means in the life of a patient
Being with
Being emotionally present for the patient
Doing for
Doing with the patient would do for himself if he was able to
Enabling
Supporting the patient through coping with life changes an unfamiliar eventS
Maintaining belief
Having faith in the patient’s ability to get through the change or event, and to find fulfillment and meaning
The nurse is providing care to a group of clients. For which situation with the nurses use critical thinking be a priority
A. Administering IV. Push meds to critically ill clients.
B. Educating a home health client about treatment options.
C. Teaching new parents, car seat safety.
D. Assisting an orthopedic client with the proper use of crutches.
B. Educating a home health client that treatment options.
A client with a PhD in epidemiology husband to numerous physicians and has numerous laboratory tests, all of which were abnormal, and expiratory surgery, but no one is able to explain the ideology of his problem. The client also states that he has a rare form of a neurological disorder. Which statement should the nurse make that demonstrates critical thinking?
A. Why don’t you just tell your physician what you think you have?
B. Did you bring your prior tests and results with you, so we don’t repeat anything?
C. If you know what you have, what do you want from us?
D. Describe what test you’ve had, and explain the symptoms of this disorder.
D. Describe what tests you’ve had, and explain the symptoms of this disorder.
A nurse educator has always believed, august outlines are the best way to present theory Contant in class. A colleague who teaches the same group of students, but a different subject, utilizes group work, and in class activities to teach difficult content and finds that students perform as well, or better on their tests. The first educator in the situation is starting to rethink her position. What behavior is the first educator demonstrating?
A. Integrity.
B. Perseverance.
C. Fair mindedness.
D. Humility.
A. Integrity.
The nurse questions, the practice of administering rectal suppositories to residence in a long-term care facility at bedtime, rather than earlier in the day. When told that this is the best time for staff, and that’s the routine that has been practiced for a long time, the nurse continues to research whether there would be a better time, especially in the best interest of the residence. Which critical thinking attitude, is this nurse demonstrating?
A. Confidence.
B. Perseverance.
C. Curiosity.
D. Integrity.
C. Curiosity.
