Nursing & Critical Thinking

Question 1

Discipline specific, reflective reasoning process that guides a nurse in generating, implementing and evaluating approaches for dealing with client care and professional concerns

Answer 1

Critical Thinking

Question 2

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.

Answer 2

Critical Thinking

Question 3

the cognitive process that uses thinking strategies to gather and analyze client information, evaluate the relevance of the information, and decide on possible nursing actions to improve the client’s physiological and psychosocial outcomes

Answer 3

clinical reasoning

Question 4

Nurses use critical thinking skills when they reflect on knowledge derived from other interdisciplinary subject areas such as the biophysical and behavioral sciences and the humanities in order to provide holistic nursing care.

Answer 4

Nurses use knowledge from other subjects and fields

Question 5

A client’s condition may rapidly change and routine protocol may not be adequate to cover every unexpected situation.

Answer 5

Nurses deal with change in stressful environments

Question 6

Every day, and every moment during the day, nurses use critical thinking skills and clinical reasoning to make judgments about a client’s care

Answer 6

Nurses makes important decisions

Question 7

is the application of a set of questions to a particular situation or idea to determine essential information and ideas and discard unimportant information and ideas.

Answer 7

Critical Analysis

Question 8

Generalizations are formed from a set of facts or observations. Specific examples (premises) to a generalized conclusion

Answer 8

Inductive Reasoning

Question 9

reasoning from general premise to the specific conclusion

Answer 9

Deductive Reasoning