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Critical thinking, Clinical Reasoning, and Clinical judgement: A Practical Approach - Alfaro-LeFevre, R. Flashcards

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Refers to mental activity.

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Thinking

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Thinking that is controlled and purposeful.

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Critical thinking

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Uses well-reasoned strategies to get the results needed.

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Critical thinking

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Complex process that changes depending on the context (circumstances).

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Critical thinking

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Requires personalization of information - to analyze and decide what it means.

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Critical thinking

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Synonym for critical thinking.

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Reasoning

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Refers to reasoning both inside and outside of the clinical setting.

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Critical thinking

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Refers to the process used to think about patient problems in the clinical setting. For example, deciding how to prevent and manage mobility issues.

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Clinical reasoning and decision-making

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Refers to the result (outcome) of critical thinking, critical reasoning, and decision-making.

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Clinical judgement

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Decision or opinion made after analyzing information.

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Clinical judgement

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Knowing how to learn, reason, think creatively, generate and evaluate ideas, see things in the mind’s eye, make decisions, and solve problems.

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Critical thinking

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Reasoning outside the clinical issues (teamwork, collaboration, and streamlining workflow).

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Critical thinking

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Reasonable, reflective thinking that focuses on what to do or believe.

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Critical thinking

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Implies careful, deliberate thought.

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Reasoning / critical thinking

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The ability to solve problems by making sense of information using creativity, intuitive, logical, and analytical mental processes…and the processes are continual.

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Critical thinking

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Knowing how to focus your thinking to get results needed (includes applying logic, intuition, standards, and evidence-based practice).

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Critical thinking

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Serves as a critical thinking model that promotes a competent level of care.

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Nursing process

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ANA

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American Nurses Association

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ADPIE

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Assessment

Diagnosis

Planning

Implementation

Evaluation

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Includes clinical reasoning, decision-making, and clinical judgement.

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Critical thinking

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Purposeful, informed, outcome-focused thinking.

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Critical thinking

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Guided by standards, ethics codes, and laws.

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Critical thinking

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Driven by patient, family and community needs as well as nurses’ needs to give competent and efficient care (e.g., streamlining charting to free up nurses for patient care).

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Critical thinking

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Based on principles of the nursing process, problem-solving, and the scientific method (requires forming opinions and making decisions based on evidence).

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Critical thinking

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Focuses on safety and quality, constantly reevaluating, self-correcting, and striving to improve personal, professional, and system practices.

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Critical thinking

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Carefully identifies key problems, issues, and risks involved and includes patients, families, and key stakeholders in decision-making early in the process.

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Critical thinking

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People who will be most affected (patients and families) or from who requirements will be drawn (e.g., caregivers, insurance companies, third-party payers, and healthcare organizations).

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Stakeholders

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Uses logic, intuition, and creativity and is grounded in specific knowledge, skills, and experience.

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Critical thinking

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Calls for human strategies that make the most of human potential and compensate for problems created by human nature (e.g., preventing errors by using technology).

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Critical thinking

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Relationships of many aspects of critical thinking.

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Most common clinical reasoning framework used among healthcare profesionals.

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Nursing process (ADPIE)

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Guide clinicians document in a way that clearly communicates care to the interprofessional team, meets legal standards, and provides the data researchers need to develop evidence-based practices.

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Nursing process (ADPIE)

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Drawing conclusions…problems and risks (step in nursing process).

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Diagnosis

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Problem identification.

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Diagnosis

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These phases happen in the context of unfolding (evolving) human situations.

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ADPIE

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Clinical Reasoning Phases - Nursing Process (ADPIE)

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May be innate, but also comes with knowledge and experience.

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Common sense

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Suggests that something is happening.

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Indicators

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Identifies own learning, personality, and communication style preferences; clarifies biases, strengths, and limitations; acknowledges when thinking may be influenced by emotions or self-interest.

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Self-aware

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Show true self; demonstrates behaviours that indicate stated values.

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Genuine / authentic

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Listens well (shows deep understanding of others’ thoughts, feelings, and circumstances); speaks and writes with clarity (gets key points across to others).

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Effective communicator

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Asks questions; looks for reasons, explanations, and meaning; seeks new information to broaden understanding.

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Curious and inquisitive

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Looks for changes in circumstances that warrant a need to modify approaches; investigates thoroughly when situations warrant precise, in-depth thinking.

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Alert to context

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Carefully considers meaning of data and interpersonal interactions; asks for feedback; corrects own thinking; is alert to potential errors by self and others; finds ways ti avoid future mistakes.

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Reflective and self-corrective

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Identifies relationships; expresses deep understanding.

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Analytical and insightful

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Draws reasonable conclusions (if this is so, then follows that because…); uses intuition as a guide only with knowledge of risks involved.

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Logical and intuitive

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Expresses faith in ability to reason and learn; overcomes problems and disappointments.

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Confident and resilient

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Looks for the truth, even if it sheds unwanted light; demonstrates integrity (adheres to moral and ethical standards; admits flaws in thinking).

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Honest and upright

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Self-directed, self-disciplined, and accepts accountability.

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Autonomous / responsible

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Seeks help as needed; suspends or revises judgement as indicated by new or incomplete data.

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Careful and prudent

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Shows tolerance for different viewpoints; questions how own viewpoints are influencing thinking.

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Open and fair-minded

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Expresses appreciation of human differences related to values, culture, personality, or learning style preferences; adapts to preferences when feasible.

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Sensitive to diversity

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Offers alternative solutions and approaches; comes up with useful ideas.

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Creative

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Admits when things are not feasible; looks for useful solutions.

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Realistic and practical

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Anticipates consequences; plans ahead; acts on opportunities.

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Proactive

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Stands up for beliefs; advocates for others; does not hide from challenges.

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Courageous

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Waits for right moment; perseveres to achieve bset result.

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Patient and persistent

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Changes approaches as needed to get the best reuslts.

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Flexible

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Promotes and healthy lifestyle; uses healthy behaviours to manage stress.

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Health-oriented

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Self: identifies learning needs; finds ways to overcome limitations; seeks out new knowledge.

Patients: Promotes health, maximizes function, comfort, and convenience.

Systems: identifies risks and problems with health care systems; promotes safety, quality, satisfaction, and cost containment.

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Improvement-oriented

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True or false: even the best critical thinkers’ abilities vary depending on circumstances such as confidence level and previous experience.

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True

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Assurance of one’s own reasoning abilities.

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Confidence

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Consideration of the whole situation, including relationships, background, and environment relevant to some happening.

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Contextual perspective

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Intellectual inventiveness used to generate, discover, or restructure ideas. Imagining alternatives.

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Creativity

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Capacity to adapt, accommodate, modify, or change thoughts, ideas, or behaviours.

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Flexibility

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An eagerness to know, demonstrated by seeking knowledge and understanding through observation and thoughtful questioning to explore possibilities and alternatives.

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Inquisitiveness

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Seeking the truth through sincere, honest processes, even if the results are contrary to one’s assumptions and beliefs.

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Intellectual integrity

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Insightful sense of knowing without conscious use of reason.

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Intuition

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A viewpoint characterized by being receptive to divergent views and sensitive to one’s biases.

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Open-mindedness

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Pursuit of course with determination to overcome obstacles.

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Perseverance

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Contemplation on a subject, especially on one’s assumptions and thinking for the purposes of deeper understanding and self-evaluation.

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Reflection

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A courageous desire for the best knowledge, even if such knowledge fails to support or undermines one’s preconceptions, beliefs, or self-interest.

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Truth seeking

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Tolerance for divergent views; self-monitoring possible biases.

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Open-mindedness

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Demanding the application of reason and evidence; alert to problematic situations; inclined to anticipate consequences.

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Analyticity

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Valuing organization; focusing; being diligent about problems at all levels of complexity.

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Systematicity

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Trusting one’s own reasoning skills; seeing oneself as a good thinker.

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Critical thinking self-confidence

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Curious and eager to acquire knowledge and learn explanations, even when the applications of the knowledge are not immediately apparent.

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Inquisitiveness

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Prudence in making, suspending, or revising judgement; awareness that multiple solutions can be acceptable; apprecation of the need to reach closure even in the absence of complete knowledge.

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Maturity

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Consciousness of the limits of knowledge and willingness to admit it.

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Intellectual humility

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Awareness of the need to face and fairly address ideas, beliefs, or viewpoints to which have never been listened to prior.

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Intellectual courage

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Consciousness of the need to imaginatively put self in place of others to genuinely understand them.

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Intellectual empathy

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Being true to own thinking; applying intellectual standards to thinking; holding self to same standards to which others are held; willingness to admit when thinking may be flawed.

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Intellectual integrity

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Having control over beliefs, values, and inferences; being an independent thinker.

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Intellectual autonomy

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Confidence that, in the long run, using own thinking and encouraging to do the same gets the best results.

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Confidence in reason

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Awareness of the need to treat all viewpoints alike; with awareness and vested interest.

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Fair-mindedness

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Confidence
Contextual perspective
Creativity
Flexibility
Inquisitiveness
Intellectual integrity
Intuition
Open-mindedness
Perseverance
Reflection
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Scheffer and Rubenfeld’s Habits of the mind

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Truth-seeking
Open-mindedness
Analyticity
Systematicity
Critical thinking self-confidence
Inquisitiveness
Maturity
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Facione’s critical thinking dispositions

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Intellectual humility 
Intellectual courage
Intellectual empathy
Intellectual autonomyy 
Intellectual integrity
Confidence in reason
Fair-mindedness
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Paul and Elder’s intellectual traits

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For the sake of improvement and doing things in the best interests of the key players involved.

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Critical thinking

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Figuring out ways to achieve something the same (or better) outcomes more efficiently is an example of:

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Critical thinking.

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True or false: being critical without being able to identify improvements or being critical to have something done how wanted be self is still critical thinking.

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False

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Inquisitive about intents, facts, and reasons behind ideas or actions; thought and knowledge oriented.

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Critical thinking

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Task-oriented rather than thought-oriented is ___ critical thinking.

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NOT

94
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Seeking to fully understand situations and procedures before giving care; modifying approaches as needed is an example of:

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critical thinking.

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Sensitive to the powerful influence of emotions, but focused on making right decisions based on what is morally and ethically the right thing to do.

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Critical thinking

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True or false: being emotionally driven is a trait of critical thinking.

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False

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Finding out how someone feels about something, then moving on to discuss what is morally right and ethically right is an example of:

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critical thinking.

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Knowing specific problem-solving strategies.

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Critical thinking

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True or false: problem-solving is missing important key concepts of critically thinking such as prevention, creativity, improvement, and aiming for the best result.

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True

100
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“What could we do better” and “are there risks we need to address to prevent problems before they happen” are examples of:

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critically thinking.

101
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Requires coming up with new ideas (right-brain thinking) and judging the worth of those ideas (left-brain thinking) .

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Critically thinking

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Overthinking problems when they should be taking action.

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Analytical paralysis

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Decision-making =

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critical thinking

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Excellent critical thinking tool.

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Scientific method

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Continuously collecting data to gain understanding and check for changes in circumstances.

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Observing

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Grouping related information so that patterns and relationships emerge.

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Classifying data

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“If this is so, then it is likely that…”

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Drawing conclusions

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Creating a list of suspected problems and solutions.

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Generating hypotheses (hunches, assumptions, or suspicions)

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Performing studies to examine and analyze data.

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Conducting experiments / analyzing data

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Determining whether there is factual evidence to support hunches, assumptions, or suspicions.

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Testing hypotheses

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“If our analysis and studies give us evidence that this is so, then it is likely that…”

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Drawing conclusions and making judgements

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Observing
Classifying data
Drawing conclusions
Generating hypotheses (hunches, assumptions, or suspicions)
Conducting experiments and analyzing data
Testing hypotheses
Drawing conclusions and making judgements

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Scientific Method

113
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The ability to recognize and manage own emotions and help others do the same.

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Emotional intelligence

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Intelligence quotient (IQ) =

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emotional intelligence

115
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Communication, engaging patients, dealing with difficult people, and resolving problems.

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Soft skills

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Side of the brain that is creative and intuitive - generating new ideas.

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Right brain

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Side of the brain that is logical and analytical - judging worth of ideas.

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Left-brain

118
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Clinicians are expected to provide evidence that supports opinions, solutions, and courses of action.

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Evidence-based thinking

119
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Rather than measuring results subjectively (e.g., “the patient seems to be managing his pain well”), critical thinking requires focusing on ___ - very specific, objective ways of measuring results (e.g., “two hours after medication, the patient rates his pain at 2 on a scale from 0 to 10, with 0 meaning pain-free and 10 meaning the worst pain possible”).

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outcomes

120
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“Meeting of the minds”.

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Collaborative thinking

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Interprofessional care and ensuring that patients are engaged in problem identification and care management process.

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Collaborative thinking

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Maintaining professionalism, understanding patients’ personal interests and passions, and showing “human side”.

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Relating on a ‘human level’

123
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Simulations are ___ ways to make and learn from mistakes.

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safe

124
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In today’s world, we emphasize the need to develop policies and procedures to be prepared for “___ ___” scenarios (terrorist attacks, including bioterrorism).

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what ifs

125
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4 Circle Critical Thinking Model

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126
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Thinking ahead, thinking in-action, and thinking back.

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Reflecting

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Anticipating what might happen and being proactive by identifying what preparation can be done.

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Thinking ahead

128
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“What can I bring with me to help me stay focused and jog my memory”.

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Thinking ahead / proactive

129
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Difficult for novices and sometimes restricted to reading manuals and textbooks.

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Thinking ahead

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“Thinking on your feet”.

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Thinking-in-action

131
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Rapid, dynamic reasoning that considers several things at once.

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Thinking-in-action

132
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Highly influenced by previous knowledge and hands-on experience.

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Thinking-in-action

133
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Supposed your stove is on fire. As you spring into action, your mind races, thinking about many things at once (“how can I put this out, where is the fire extinguisher, should I call the fire department”?)…this is an example of:

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thinking-in-action.

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Prone to knee-jerk responses and decisions.

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Thinking-in-action

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Analyzing and deconstructing reasoning to look for flaws, gain more understanding, and make corrections.

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Thinking back (reflecting on thinking)

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