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FUNDA - LEGAL ASPECTS Flashcards

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the sum total of rules and regulation by which a society is govern as such a law is created by people and exist to regulate all persons.

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LAW

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4 FUNCTIONS OF THE LAW IN NURSING (PDHM)

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  1. It provides a framework for establishing which nursing actions in the care of clients are legal.
  2. It differentiate the nurse responsibilities from those other health professional
  3. Helps establish the boundaries of independent nursing action
  4. It assists in maintaining a standard in nursing practice by making nurses accountable under the law.
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  • refers to a body of law that deals with relationship between individual & the government and government agencies.
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PUBLIC LAW

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4 SOURCES OF LAW (CLAC)

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Constitution
●Legislation (statutes)&raquo_space; nurse practice act
●Administrative Law
●Common Law

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deals with relationship among private individual

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PRIVATE LAW

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— it deals with the actions against the safety and welfare of the public; examples are homicide, manslaughter, and theft.
— crimes can be classified as either felonies or misdemeanors.

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CRIMINAL LAW

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defines & enforces duty and rights among private individuals that are not based on contractual agreements. (professional negligence,invasion of privacy, and assault and battery.)

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TORT LAW

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involves the reinforcements of agreement among private individual or the payment of compensation for failure to fulfill the agreements

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CONTRACT LAW

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2 KINDS OF LEGAL ACTION (CC)

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CIVIL A
CRIMINAL A

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(the major difference between CIVIL ACTION AND CRIMINAL ACTION IS __________)

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the outcome of the defendants

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deals with relationships among individuals in society.

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CIVIL ACTION

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deals with disputes between an individual and society as whole.

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CRIMINAL ACTIONS

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who claims that his or her legal rights have been infringed on by one or more other individuals or entities are Defendants.

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PLAINTIFF

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all relevance facts are presented to judge or to jury.

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TRIAL

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is primarily functions to settle disputes peacefully and in accordance with the law a lawsuit has a strict procedural rules.

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THE CIVIL JUDICIAL PROCESS

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pretrial activities to obtain all facts of the situation.

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DISCOVERY

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document filed by individual.

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COMPLAINT

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is the job of the judge or jury and verdict was the decision.

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DECISION

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a written response is made by the dependent.

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ANSWER

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an expert witness has special training. Experience, or skills in a relevant area and is allowed by the court to offer an opinion on some issue within his or her area of expertise.

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NURSE AS A WITNESS

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— protection of the public is the legal purpose of defining the the scope of nursing practice.

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REGULATIONS OF NURSING PRACTICE

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— is a process of determining and maintaining competence in nursing practice it includes licensure, certification, and accreditation.

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CREDENTIALING

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— is a legal permit that the agency grants to individuals to engage in the practice of a profession and to use a particular title.

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LICENSURE

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“Philippine Nursing act of 1991” aims to achieve relevant nursing education, humane working conditions, better career prospects, and a dignified existence for the Filipino nurses.

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RA 7164

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Philippine Nursing act of 2002.” _______________ was enacted in 2002 to provide a comprehensive definition and understanding of the nursing profession.

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RA 9173

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  • Section 2 of ___________ declares the policy that the state shall institutionalize integrated system of early childhood care and development that will serve all children 0-5 years old including children with special needs and respect for cultural diversity with end in view of improving/ the quality of life for …
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RA 8980

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otherwise known as the “special protection of children against child abuse, exploitation and discrimination act, “ and/or crimes against children, including the conceived but unborn child as provided for by the revised penal code and other pertinent laws.

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RA 7610

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acknowledges that women who have retaliated against their partner or who commit violence as a form of self-defense may have suffered from battered woman syndrome (bws). bws refers to a pattern of psychological and behavioral symptoms found in battered women as a result of a long history of abuse.

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RA 9262

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— it safeguard a patient’s right to accurate and complete information, fair treatment and self-determination when making health care decisions.

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PATIENTS BILL OF RIGHT

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13 PATIENT RIGHTS

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  1. Right to proper and appropriate medical and humane treatment
  2. Right to informed consent
  3. Right to privacy and confidentiality
  4. Right to information
  5. Right to choose physician and healthcare provider
  6. Right to self -determination
  7. Right to religious belief
  8. Right to medical record
  9. Right to leave
  10. Right to refuse participation in medical research
  11. Right to correspondents and to receive visitors
  12. Right to express grievances
  13. Right to inform his rights and obligation as a patient.
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is an agreement a client to accept a course of treatment or procedure after being provided complete information, including,the benefits and risk of treatment, alternatives, and prognosis if not treated by a healthcare provider.

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INFORMED CONSENT

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ORAL/WRITTEN CONSENT

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EXPRESS CONSENT

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VERBAL CONSENT

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IMPLIED CONSENT

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CANNOT GIVE CONSENT TO (3)

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1.Minor below 18 years old
2.Who is mentally incapacitated
3.Unconscious, or injured

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Other Legal Responsibility of Nurse

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  1. delegation
  2. violence, abuse and neglect
  3. discrimination
  4. controlled substances
  5. substance use disorder
  6. sexual harassment
  7. abortion
  8. death and related issues
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3 TYPES OF HEALTHCARE SERVICES

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PRIMARY
SECONDARY
TERTIARY

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health promotion and prevention

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PRIMARY PREVENTION

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consist of diagnosis and treatment

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SECONDARY PREVENTION

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consist of rehab, health restoration, and palliative

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TERTIARY PREVENTION

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TYPE OF HEALTHCARE AGENCIES AND SERVICES

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  1. Public Health
  2. Physician offices
  3. Ambulatory care centers
  4. Occupational health clinics
  5. Hospitals
  6. Subacute care facilities
  7. Extended (long -term) facilities
  8. Retirement & assisted living center
  9. Rehabilitation center
  10. Home healthcare agencies
  11. Day care center
  12. Rural care
  13. Hospice service
  14. Crisis center
  15. Mutual support and self-help groups
  16. Providers of healthcare
  17. Nurse
  18. Alternative care provider
  19. Assistive personnel
  20. Case manager
  21. Dentist
  22. Dietitian or nutritionist
  23. Emergency medical personnel
  24. Occupational therapist
  25. Paramedical technologist
  26. Pharmacist
  27. Physician
  28. Physician assistant
  29. Podiatrist
  30. Respiratory therapist
  31. Social worker
  32. Spiritual support personnel
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FACTOR’S AFFECTING HEALTHCARE DELIVERY

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● Increasing number of older adults
● Advance technology
● Economics
● Women’s health
● Uneven distribution of services
● Access to health insurance
● The homeless and the poor
● Health insurance portability and accountability act
● Demographic changes
● Frameworks for care
● Managed care
● Management care
● Case management
● Differentiated practice
● Case method
● Functional method
● Team nursing
● Primary nursing
● Financing healthcare
● Supplemental security income
● Children’s health insurance program
● Women, infants & children program
● Prospective payment system

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is a collection of individuals who share some of the attributes of their lives and interact with one another in some way.

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Community Nursing & Care continuity

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  • Informatics refers to the science of computer information system
  • Use of information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error and support decision making
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ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD

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  • is designed to facilitate the structure & application of data used to manage an organization or department
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MIS - management information system

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focuses on the type of data needed to manage client care activities and healthcare organization

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HIS - hospital information system

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Technology in Nursing Practice

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*Documentation & medical record keeping bedside
*data entry
*quick access to patient data
*safer more reliable in prescribing
*promote legible, accurate documentation and streamlined coding & billing
*enhancing privacy & security
*reducing cost through decrease paperwork
*data can be displayed in different format
*focus more time
*improved communication
*client monitoring & computerized diagnosis
*tracking client status
*data standardization and classification
*information & sharing information
*accreditation
*data mining
*problem identification
*literature review
*research design
*data collection & analysis
*research dissemination

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  • is the freedom from disease-causing microorganism
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ASEPSIS

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is the condition in which acute organ dysfunction occurs secondary to infection

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SEPSIS

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includes all practices intended to confine a specific microorganism to specific area, limiting the number of, growth, and transmission of microorganism

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MEDICAL ASEPSIS

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refer to those practices that keep an area or object free of all microorganism including destroying all microorganisms and spores

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SURGICAL ASEPSIS/STERILE TECHNIQUE

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most common causing infection

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BACTERIA

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consist primarily of nucleic acid and therefore must enter living cells in order to reproduce common virus families rhinovirus causes common cold hepatitis, herpes and hiv

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VIRUSES

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  • include yeast and molds candida albicans is a yeast consider to be normal in human vagina
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FUNGI

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  • live on the other living organism. they include protozoa, such as the one causing malaria, helminths (worm), and arthropods (mites, fleas,ticks)
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PARASITES

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is the process by which strains of microorganism become a resident of the flora. in this state the microorganism may grow and multiply but do not cause disease

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COLONIZATION

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is limited to the specific part of the body where the microorganism remain

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LOCAL INFECTION

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when the organism spread and damage different parts of the body
➢bacteria - when blood culture become reveals microorganism

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SYSTEMIC INFECTION

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generally appear suddenly or last a short time

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ACUTE INFECTION

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condition when bacteremia results in systemic infection

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SEPTICEMIA

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may occur slowly over a period of time and may last a months or years.

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CHRONIC INFECTION

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classify as originated in the hospital

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NOSOCOMIAL INFECTION

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— is the process of intentional higher level thinking to define a client’s problem, examine the evidence based practice in caring for the client and make choices in the delivery of care.

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CRITICAL THINKING

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those that originate in any healthcare setting and of hospital acquired conditions

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HEALTHCARE ASSOCIATED INFECTION

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— is the cognitive process that uses thinking strategies to gather and analyze patient information, evaluate the relevance and decide on possible nursing actions to improve the patients physiological and psychological outcomes.

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CLINICAL REASONING

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4 CRITICAL THINKING MODEL

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*characteristic (attitude/behavior)
*technical skill competencies
*theoretical & experimental knowledge, intellectual skills competencies
*interpersonal & self management skills

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a)trial and error- number of approaches are tried until the solution is found
b)intuition - is a problem solving approach that relies on a nurses’ inner sense
c)clinical judgment - is a decision-making process to ascertain the right nursing
d)research process is formalized logical , systematic approach to problem solving
e)independence

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a)trial and error- number of approaches are tried until the solution is found
b)intuition - is a problem solving approach that relies on a nurses’ inner sense
c)clinical judgment - is a decision-making process to ascertain the right nursing
d)research process is formalized logical , systematic approach to problem solving
e)independence

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— is a mental activity in which a problem is that identified that represents an unsteady state.

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PROBLEM SOLVING

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NURSES USES CRITICAL THINKING

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1.nurses use knowledge from other subject and fields
2.nurses deal with change in stressful environment
3.nurses make import aat decisions

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application of a set of question to a particular situation or idea to determine essential information and ideas & discard unimportant information & ideas

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CRITICAL ANALYSIS

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is thinking that result is the development of new ideas and products
* generate many ideas rapidly
* be generally flexible & natural-,be able to change view points or directions
* create original solutions to problems
* be independent & self confident, even when under pressure
* demonstrate individuality

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CREATIVITY

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generalization are formed from a set of facts or observation

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INDUCTIVE REASONING

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from general to specific to the specific conclusion

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DEDUCTIVE REASONING

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used to look beneath the surface, recognize & examine assumptions, search for inconsistencies, examine multiple views & differentiate what one knows from one what one merely believes.

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