ATI CRITICAL THINKING NURSING 2026
PRACTICE TEST WITH STEP BY STEP
SOLUTIONS
◉ The components of critical thinking. Answer: knowledge,
experience, critical thinking competencies, attitudes, and intellectual
and professional standards.
◉ Critical thinking incorporates. Answer: reflection, language, and
intuition, and it evolves through three distinct levels as a nurse gains
knowledge and experience while maturing into a competent nursing
professional.
◉ Reflection. Answer: Purposefully thinking back recalling a
situation to discover its meaning and gain insight into the event.
◉ Language. Answer: Precise, clear language demonstrating focused
thinking and communicating unambiguous messages and
expectations to clients and other health care team members.
◉ Language. Answer: Precise, clear language demonstrating focused
thinking and communicating unambiguous messages and
expectations to clients and other health care team members.
, ◉ Intuition. Answer: An inner sensing that facts do not currently
support something. Intuition should spark the nurse to search the
data to confirm or disprove the feeling.
◉ Levels if critical thinking. Answer: Basic
Complex
◉ Basic critical thinking. Answer: A nurse trusts the experts and
thinks concretely based on the rules.
Results from limited nursing knowledge experience, as well as
inadequate critical thinking experience.
◉ Complex critical thinking. Answer: The nurse begins to express
autonomy by analyzing and examining data to determine the best
alternative.
Results from an increase in nursing knowledge, experience,
intuition, and more flexible attitudes.
◉ Commitment. Answer: The nurse expects to make choices without
help from others and fully assumes the responsibility those choices.
Results from an expert level of knowledge experience, developed
intuition, and reflective, flexible attitudes.
PRACTICE TEST WITH STEP BY STEP
SOLUTIONS
◉ The components of critical thinking. Answer: knowledge,
experience, critical thinking competencies, attitudes, and intellectual
and professional standards.
◉ Critical thinking incorporates. Answer: reflection, language, and
intuition, and it evolves through three distinct levels as a nurse gains
knowledge and experience while maturing into a competent nursing
professional.
◉ Reflection. Answer: Purposefully thinking back recalling a
situation to discover its meaning and gain insight into the event.
◉ Language. Answer: Precise, clear language demonstrating focused
thinking and communicating unambiguous messages and
expectations to clients and other health care team members.
◉ Language. Answer: Precise, clear language demonstrating focused
thinking and communicating unambiguous messages and
expectations to clients and other health care team members.
, ◉ Intuition. Answer: An inner sensing that facts do not currently
support something. Intuition should spark the nurse to search the
data to confirm or disprove the feeling.
◉ Levels if critical thinking. Answer: Basic
Complex
◉ Basic critical thinking. Answer: A nurse trusts the experts and
thinks concretely based on the rules.
Results from limited nursing knowledge experience, as well as
inadequate critical thinking experience.
◉ Complex critical thinking. Answer: The nurse begins to express
autonomy by analyzing and examining data to determine the best
alternative.
Results from an increase in nursing knowledge, experience,
intuition, and more flexible attitudes.
◉ Commitment. Answer: The nurse expects to make choices without
help from others and fully assumes the responsibility those choices.
Results from an expert level of knowledge experience, developed
intuition, and reflective, flexible attitudes.
