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Critical Thinking and Nursing Process Flashcards

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What is inductive reasoning?

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Generalisations are formed from a set of facts

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What is deductive reasoning?

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Reasoning from a general premise

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What is socratic questioning?

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A technique used to look beneath the surface to search for inconsistencies

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What is critical analysis?

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The application of a set of questions to determine relevant from irrelevant information

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5
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Define assessing

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The systematic and continuous collection, organisation, validation and documentation of data

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What are common sources of data?

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  • The client
  • Support people
  • Clinical records
  • Observations
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7
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Explain an actual nursing diagnosis

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A problem that is present when the nurse assesses the person

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Explain a risk nursing diagnosis

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A clinical judgement about a potential problem where the presence of risk factors indicates that a problem has the potential to develop unless nurses intervene

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What are the components of a nursing diagnosis?

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PROBLEM related to AETIOLOGY (cause)

E.g., Nausea and vomiting related to gastroenteritis

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What is initial care planning?

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The admission assessment and develops initial plan of care

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What is ongoing planning?

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  • Completed by all nurses caring for the patient/client
  • Aim is to determine if the patients/clients health status has hanged
  • Set priorities
  • Decide which problems to focus on during the shift
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Implementing is…

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the action phase in which the nurse performs the nursing interventions

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Evaluating is…

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to judge or to appraise the effectiveness of care

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What is information?

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Facts provided or learned about something or someone

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What is an inference?

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The act or process of deriving logical conclusions from presumptions that you assume to be true

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What is an assumptions?

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Something taken for granted

17
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Explain subjective data

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  • Information provided by the patient
  • Describes the person’s perceptions of the experience with the problems
  • Can only be verified by the person or carers
  • Symptoms and information
18
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Explain objective data

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  • Can be measured or tested against an accepted standard
  • It can be seen
  • Measurable > vital signs, laboratory tests and x-ray results
19
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What is reflection?

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Involves evaluating the outcomes of nursing care interventions and is essential to clinical reasoning and the ability to provide safe and holistic nursing care

20
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What is creativity in a nursing context?

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A major component of critical thinking as it allows nurses to identify unique solutions to unique problems

21
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What is reasoning?

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  • Inductive reasoning: generalisations are formed from a set of facts or observations
  • Deductive reasoning: reasoning from the general premise to the specific conclusion
22
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What is divergent thinking and clarifying?

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Differentiating between statements of fact, inference, judgement and opinion

23
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What is independence and interdependence?

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Independent thinking is essential to interprofessional health care and the ability to work as a team to make judgements and decisions collaboratively

24
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What is fair-mindedness?

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Assesses all viewpoints with the same standards and not basing their judgements on personal or group bias or prejudice

25
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What is insight?

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Aware that personal biases or social pressures and customs can affect their thinking, requires a sense of balance and understanding of a situation

26
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What is intellectual humility?

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Having an awareness of the limits of a person’s own knowledge, willing to admit what they don’t know

27
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What is intellectual courage?

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Needed to change the status quo and move away from ritualised practice

28
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Define curiosity

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Curiosity to have courage to examine traditions to be sure they are still valid

29
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Define integrity

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Questioning any inconsistencies in their own knowledge and beliefs as quickly and thoroughly as they challenge those of another person

30
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Define perseverance

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Shows perseverance in finding effective solutions to nursing problems

31
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Define confidence

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Believe that well-reasoned thinking will lead to trustworthy and confident conclusions

32
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What are the steps of the nursing process?

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  • Assessing
  • Assessment (Nursing Diagnosis)
  • Planning
  • Implementation
  • Evaluation

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