Developing Critical Thinking Skills - Critical Thinking in Nursing Practice

Question 1

Case-based learning, reflective writing, and concept mapping are examples of these type of strategies.

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Critical thinking strategies

Question 2

A strategy that helps to explore complex problems and engage in decision-making without the risk of harming a patient.

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Case-based learning

Question 3

It includes approaches such as case studies, problem-based learning, simulation, and virtual reality.

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Case-base learning

Question 4

Can be used to practise psychomotor skills to enhance knowledge base, respond to unanticipated events in a controlled environment, and receive immediate feedback on performance.

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Simulation and virtual reality

Question 5

Using these technologies can identify knowledge gaps, help in learning from mistakes in a safe environment, and enhance abilities to solve problems and make clinical judgements in increasingly complex scenarios.

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Simulation and virtual reality

Question 6

Help to prepare to apply diagnostic reasoning, inference, and clinical decision-making in real-life situations and are a valuable complement to clinical practice experiences.

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Case-based strategies

Question 7

A tool for developing critical thought that uses the process of reflection to purposefully recall a situation in order to discover its purpose or meaning.

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Reflective writing

Question 8

Opportunity to describe a clinical experience in words, explore perceptions and understanding of the experience, and become more aware of how to use clinical decision-making skills.

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Reflective writing

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Invites questions such as “what have I learned from this experience?” and “what could I have done differently?”

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Reflective writing

Question 10

Promotes knowledge transfer by enabling identification of how previously acquired knowledge can be applied in another situation.

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Reflecting

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Important component of monitoring competence in nursing practice.

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Reflecting

Question 12

Allows examination of assumptions about what it means to be of different age, race, or sexual orientation or to suffer from a mental illness.

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Reflecting

Question 13

Visual representation of patient problems and interventions that depicts their relationships to one another.

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Concept map

Question 14

Synthesizes relevant data about a patient, including assessment data, health needs, nursing diagnoses, nursing interventions, and evaluation measures.

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Concept map

Question 15

Moves beyond memorizing, recalling facts, and focusing on tasks that need to be done to organizing or linking information in a unique way so that the diverse information about a patient begins to connect to form meaningful patterns and concepts.

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Concept map

Question 16

When you see the relationship between the various patient diagnoses and the assessment data that support them, you gain a holistic understanding of a patient’s clinical situation.

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Concept map