Week Four

Question 0

Clinical Decisions in Nursing Practice

Answer 0

Clinical decision-making skills separate professional nurses from technical and ancillary staff.

Clients have problems for which no textbook answers exist.

Nurses need to seek knowledge, act quickly, and make sound clinical decisions.

Question 1

Thinking and Learning

Answer 1

Learning is a lifelong process.

Intellectual and emotional growth involves learning new knowledge, as well as refining the ability to think, solve problems, and make judgements.

Question 2

Critical Thinking

Answer 2

Recognizing an issue exists, analyzing information, evaluating information, and making conclusions

Question 3

Dispositions that lead to Critical Thinking

Answer 3

Ability to ask questions

Be well informed

Be honest in facing personal biases

Be willing to reconsider and think clearly about issues

Question 4

Dispositions of Critical Thinkers

Answer 4

Truth-seeking
Open-mindedness
Analyticity 
Systematicity
Self-confidence
Inquisitiveness
Maturity

Question 5

Critical Thinking Skills

Answer 5

Interpretation

Analysis

Evaluation

Inference

Explanation

Self-regulation

Question 6

Kataoka-Yahiro and Saylor

Answer 6

Critical Thinking Model

In 1994 defined the outcome of critical thinking as nursing judgement that is relevant to nursing problems in a variety of settings

Defined three levels of critical thinking:
Basic - relying on experts
Complex - combination
Commitment - relying on own expertise

Question 7

Five Components of Critical Thinking in Nursing

Answer 7

1⃣specific knowledge base
2⃣experience in nursing
3⃣critical thinking (nursing process) competencies 
4⃣qualities for critical thinking
5⃣standards for critical thinking

Question 8

Critical Thinking (nursing process) Competencies

Answer 8

A. General critical thinking competencies (scientific method, problem solving, and decision making)

B. Specific critical thinking competencies in clinical situations (diagnostic reasoning, clinical inference, and clinical decision making)

C. Specific critical thinking competency in nursing (use of nursing process)

Question 9

Nursing Process

Answer 9

Assessment
Diagnosis
Planning
Implementation
Evaluation

Question 10

Reflective Journaling

Answer 10

A tool used to clarify concepts through reflection by thinking back or recalling situations

Question 11

Concept Mapping

Answer 11

A visual representation of client problems and interventions that illustrates an interrelationship

Question 12

Critical Social Theory

Answer 12

Critical theories are founded on the belief that a progressive development of knowledge occurs through an ongoing critique of the status quo and orientated toward the continuous reconstruction of a more just, equitable and humane society

The central value of critical social theory is the goal of emancipation from the constraints of domination and an unreflected consciousness.

Critical social theory can be used by nurses to expand their own awareness of the values and belief that determine their interactional patterns…

The major aim of curriculum from the perspective of the critical paradigm is to foster a spirit of what Maxine Greene (1978) calls “Wide Awakeness”.

Critical social theory is a potentially fruitful framework within which to analyze ethical issues in family and community health

Question 13

What are the three levels of critical thinking?

Answer 13

Basic (rely on expert)

Complex (have some critical, independent ideas, see complexity of solutions)

Commitment (making choices with own profession discretion)