P&P Chapter 15 Critical Thinking Flashcards
Knowledge based on research or clinical expertise that makes you an informed critical thinker.
Evidence-based Knowledge
A continuous process characterized by open-mindedness, continual inquiry, and perseverance, combined with a willingness to look at each unique patient situation and determine which identified assumptions are true and relevant.
Critical Thinking
Careful reasoning so that you choose the options for the best client outcomes on the basis of the client’s condition and the priority of the problem
Clinical decision making
Steps of critical thinking
- Analysis
- Evaluation
- Making conclusion
Determining relevance of assessment data
Divergent thinking
Defining terms noting similarities and differences
Clarifying
Critical Thinking Skills
- Divergent thinking
- Reasoning
- Clarifying
- Reflection
Occurs when you have time to think about what happened
Reflection
Multiple solutions are acceptable. Reflect on your own judgments; have cognitive maturity.
Maturity
Five components of Critical thinking
- Knowledge base
- Experience
- Nursing process competencies
- Attitudes
- Standards
Critical thinking Competences
- Scientific method
- Decision making
- Clinical desicion making
- Problem solving
- Diagnostic reasoning and inference
- Nursing process as a competency
Ability to discriminate facts
Reasoning
Seek the true meaning of a situation. Be courageous, honest, and objective about asking questions .
True seeking
Be tolerant of different views; be sensitive to the possibility of your own prejudices; respect the right of others to have different opinions.
Open-mindedness
Trust in your own reasoning processes.
Self-confdence
Be eager to acquire knowledge and learn explanations even when applications of the knowledge are not immediately clear. Value learning for learning’s sake.
Inquisitiveness
Learner trusts that experts have the right answers for every problem.
Basic critical thinking
Analyze potentially problematic situations; anticipate possible results or consequences; value reason; use evidence-based knowledge.
Analyticity
Thinking is concrete and based on a set of rules or principles.
Basic critical thinking
Begin to separate themselves from experts.
Complex critical thinking
A nurse learns that alternative and perhaps conflicting solutions exist.
Complex critical thinking
They analyze and examine choices more independently.
Complex critical thinking
Sistematic ordered approach to gathering data and solving problems.
Scientific method
At this level a person anticipates when to make choices without assistance from others and accepts accountability for decisions made.
Commitment
At this level you choose an action or belief based on the available alternatives and support it.
Commitment
Obtain information and then use the information plus what youn already know o find a solution.
Problem solving
Be organized, focused; work hard in any inquiry.
Sistematicity
Focuses on problem resolution
Decision making
Determining a patient health status after you have assigned meaning to the behaviors and symptoms presented.
Diagnostic reasoning
Process to drawing conclusions from related pieces of evidences.
Inference
Refer to policy and procedures manuals to review steps of a skill.
Responsability
Careful reasoning so the best options are chosen for the best outcomes.
Clinical decision making
Speak with conviction and always be prepared to perform care safety.
Confidence
Read the nursing literature
Thinking independently
Listen to both sides in any discussion.
Fairness
Be willing to recommend alternatives aroaches to nursing care.
Risk taking
Nursing process
Five step clinical thinking approach
Take time to be thorough and manage your time effectively
Discipline
Be cautious of an easy answer k for a pattern and find a solution
Perseverance
Look for differents approaches if intervension are not working
Creativity
Explore and learn about the patient to make appropiate clinical judgments.
Curiosity
Do not compromise nursing standards or honesty in delivering nursing care.
Integrity
Recognize when you need more information to make a decision.
Humility
Guideline or principle for rational thought
Intellectual standards
Evidences based critical criteria judgment use for evaluation and criteria for professional responsability.
Professional standards
Process of purposefully thinking back or recalling a situation to discovers its purpose or meaning.
Reflective journaling
Visual representation of patient problems and intervention that shows their relation to one another.
Concept mapping
