Resilience and Critical thinking

Question 1

what is resilience?

Answer 1

The capacity of individuals to withstand significant change, adversity or risk and is enhanced by protective factors within individuals and environments

Question 2

what are examples of individual protective factors?

Answer 2

Effective coping skills
Sense of spirituality
Good interpersonal skills
Problem solving skills
Sense of belonging
Having optimism about the future
Meaningful activities

Question 3

what is critical thinking?

Answer 3

the rational, skeptical and unbiased analyisis of facts and evidence to from a conclusion

A way of thinking that is self monitored, self directed and self corrected

Question 4

what are two obstacles to critical thinking?

Answer 4

Egocentrism
inability to take perspective of another person

Sociocentric thinking
group egocentricity

Question 5

what are the 5 types of cognitive bias?

Answer 5

Confirmation bias - only listen to info that confirms existing beliefs
Hindsight Bias - tendency to see events as more predictable than they are
Anchoring bias - overly influenced by first piece of info
Misinformation effect - memories influenced by things that happened after event itself
Actor-Observer bias - attributing OUR actions to external influences and other peoples as internal ones

Question 6

what is an echo chamber?

Answer 6

where a person only encounters information or opinions that reflect and reinforce their own

Question 7

what are important things to do as a nurse in regards to critical thinking?

Answer 7

be aware of personal bias and assumptions

Learn from all available resources

Reflective practices after shift

Maintain flexibility and adaptability