Module 3 nursing process Flashcards
process of international higher level of thinking to define a client’s
problem, examine evidence-based practice in caring for the patient and making
choices in the delivery of care.
Critical Thinking
cognitive process that uses thinking strategies to gather and
analyze client information, evaluate its relevance and decide on nursing actions to
improve outcomes
Clinical Reasoning
Conclusion about a patient’s
needs or health problems that
leads to taking or avoiding action,
using or modifying standard
approaches or creating new ones
based on patient’s responses
Clinical
Judgment
Please review clinical judgement diagram
begin
proactive
THINK AHEAD
reflective
thinking
THINK BACK
The process of critical thinking
requires the nurse to 3
THINK AHEAD
APPLY THINKING WHILE
ACTING
. THINK BACK
Application of a set of questions to a particular
situation or idea to determine essential information
and ideas and discard unimportant ones
Critical
Analysis
Technique one can use to look beneath the surface,
recognize and examine assumptions, search for
inconsistencies, examine multiple points of view
and differentiate what one knows from what one
believes
Socratic
Questioning
Generalizations formed from a set of facts or
observations (from specific to general)
Inductive
Reasoning
Reasoning from general premise to specific
conclusions
Deductive
Reasoning
Levels Of Critical Thinking 3
CommitmentComplexBasic
consider wide array
of clinical alternatives, apply all
elements of clinical judgment
model automatically
Commitment
independent decision-making,
creativity, with initiative to look beyond
expert opinion, consideration of different
solutions, options and approaches
Complex
answers are either right or wrong, single
solution to a problem
Basic
Please review knowledge based