Critical Thinking Flashcards
What is clinical judgement?
Conclusion about a patient’s needs, health problems, and/or the decisions to take or avoid action. Use or modify standard approaches, or create new approaches based on the patient’s response
What separates professional nurses from assistive personnel?
Clinical decision making
RN’s direct and delegate who to perform basic aspects of care based on patient need?
Assistive Personnel
How do clinical judgement and clinical decision making differ from each other?
Clinical decision making is making up your mind what you want to do for your patient.
Clinical judgement is your clinical reasoning. This means knowing what’s wrong with your patient, knowing why you should avoid specific things with your patient, etc.
What is critical thinking?
Thinking in a systemic and logical manner with openness to question and reflect on the reasoning process
What do critical thinkers do?
Question, seek, and examine info for answers and deeper meanings in order to understand their patients.
What skills are required for critical thinking and clinical judgement?
Interpretation
Analysis
Evaluation
Explanation
Self-regulation
When reflecting, what are five questions that you should ask yourself?
How did I act?
Why did I choose such an action?
What could I have done differently?
We’re the results what I expected?
What should I do in a similar situation in the future?
What are the levels of critical thinking?
Basic critical thinking
Complex critical thinking
Commitment
What are the competencies required for general critical thinking?
The scientific method, problem-solving, and decision making
What are the competencies required for specific reasoning?
Diagnostic reasoning and clinical decision making
What is inductive reasoning?
Using specific facts or details to make conclusions or generalizations
What is deductive reasoning?
Generates facts/ details from a major theory, generalization, or premise
What is inference?
Conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning
What are 6 topics that you can find in a critical thinking model for clinical decision making?
Competence, Specific Knowledge Base, Experience, Nursing Process Competency, Attitudes for Critical Thinking, Standards for Critical Thinking
