COR 195 UPDATED EXAMS TEST PAPER
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔10 Main Critical Thinking Questions: - ✔✔1. What major outcomes (observable
beneficial results) do you and key stakeholders expect to observe in the patient after
care is complete?
2. Exactly what problems, issues, risks, must be managed to achieve major outcomes?
3. What are circumstances in this patient's situation?
4. What knowledge/skills are required to care for this patient?
5. How much room is there for error?
6. How much time do you have?
7. What human and information measures can help?
8. Whose perspectives must be considered?
9. What's influencing thinking?
10. What must be done to monitor prevent, manage, eliminate the problems, issues,
and risks from questions #2 and who's accountable for doing it?
✔✔Logic: - ✔✔- Sound reasoning that's based on facts (evidence)
- Safest, most reliable approach
✔✔Intuition: - ✔✔- Knowing something without evidence
- For experts, can speed up problem-solving because they have experience/knowledge
- Bring logic and look for evidence for gut feelings
, ✔✔Trial And Error: - ✔✔- Trying several solutions until you find one that works
- Only use when there's plenty room for mistakes
✔✔Focusing on details and the big picture: - ✔✔- Critical thinking requires both
✔✔Drawing Maps, Diagrams, Decision Trees: - ✔✔- Promotes critical thinking by
helping brain grasp complex relationships
- When you can draw your own, it's "personalized" information and "makes it your own"
✔✔Clinical Simulation And Debriefing: - ✔✔- Hands on simulated experience is
powerful way to practice in safe environment
- With high-fidelity stimulators (realistic mechanical parts, that mimic human response to
interventions. Ex: meds, oxygen, IV) - you learn in environment where no one is
harmed. Being able to make mistakes, catch it, correct it - is very valuable to learning
✔✔Other Clinical Thinking Strategies: - ✔✔- Anticipate questions others may ask
- Ask "What else?", "What if?", "Why?"
- Think out loud or write thoughts down
- Ask expert to think out loud
- Look for flaws in your thinking
- Ask someone else to look for flaws in your thinking
- Paraphrase in your own words
- Compare/contrast
- Organize/re-organize information
✔✔Critical Thinking Indicators Demonstrating Knowledge - Clarifies Nursing
Knowledge: - ✔✔- Nursing and medical terminology
- Nursing vs. medical and other models, roles, responsibilities
- Scope of nursing practice (qualifications; applicable standard laws, rules/regulations)
- Related anatomy, physiology, pathophysiology
- Spiritual, social, cultural concepts
- Normal/abnormal growth/development (pediatric, adult, genentologic implications)
- Normal/abnormal function (bio-psycho-social-cultural-spiritual)
- Nutrition/pharmacology principles
- Behavioral health, disease management
- Signs/symptoms of common problems/complications
- Nursing process, nursing theories, research, evidence-based practice
- Reasons behind policies, procedures, interventions, diagnostic studies, implications
- Ethical/legal principles
- Risk management/infection control
- Safety standards, healthy workplace standards, principle of learning and safety
cultures
- Interrelationship of healthcare disciplines/systems
- Reliable information sources
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔10 Main Critical Thinking Questions: - ✔✔1. What major outcomes (observable
beneficial results) do you and key stakeholders expect to observe in the patient after
care is complete?
2. Exactly what problems, issues, risks, must be managed to achieve major outcomes?
3. What are circumstances in this patient's situation?
4. What knowledge/skills are required to care for this patient?
5. How much room is there for error?
6. How much time do you have?
7. What human and information measures can help?
8. Whose perspectives must be considered?
9. What's influencing thinking?
10. What must be done to monitor prevent, manage, eliminate the problems, issues,
and risks from questions #2 and who's accountable for doing it?
✔✔Logic: - ✔✔- Sound reasoning that's based on facts (evidence)
- Safest, most reliable approach
✔✔Intuition: - ✔✔- Knowing something without evidence
- For experts, can speed up problem-solving because they have experience/knowledge
- Bring logic and look for evidence for gut feelings
, ✔✔Trial And Error: - ✔✔- Trying several solutions until you find one that works
- Only use when there's plenty room for mistakes
✔✔Focusing on details and the big picture: - ✔✔- Critical thinking requires both
✔✔Drawing Maps, Diagrams, Decision Trees: - ✔✔- Promotes critical thinking by
helping brain grasp complex relationships
- When you can draw your own, it's "personalized" information and "makes it your own"
✔✔Clinical Simulation And Debriefing: - ✔✔- Hands on simulated experience is
powerful way to practice in safe environment
- With high-fidelity stimulators (realistic mechanical parts, that mimic human response to
interventions. Ex: meds, oxygen, IV) - you learn in environment where no one is
harmed. Being able to make mistakes, catch it, correct it - is very valuable to learning
✔✔Other Clinical Thinking Strategies: - ✔✔- Anticipate questions others may ask
- Ask "What else?", "What if?", "Why?"
- Think out loud or write thoughts down
- Ask expert to think out loud
- Look for flaws in your thinking
- Ask someone else to look for flaws in your thinking
- Paraphrase in your own words
- Compare/contrast
- Organize/re-organize information
✔✔Critical Thinking Indicators Demonstrating Knowledge - Clarifies Nursing
Knowledge: - ✔✔- Nursing and medical terminology
- Nursing vs. medical and other models, roles, responsibilities
- Scope of nursing practice (qualifications; applicable standard laws, rules/regulations)
- Related anatomy, physiology, pathophysiology
- Spiritual, social, cultural concepts
- Normal/abnormal growth/development (pediatric, adult, genentologic implications)
- Normal/abnormal function (bio-psycho-social-cultural-spiritual)
- Nutrition/pharmacology principles
- Behavioral health, disease management
- Signs/symptoms of common problems/complications
- Nursing process, nursing theories, research, evidence-based practice
- Reasons behind policies, procedures, interventions, diagnostic studies, implications
- Ethical/legal principles
- Risk management/infection control
- Safety standards, healthy workplace standards, principle of learning and safety
cultures
- Interrelationship of healthcare disciplines/systems
- Reliable information sources
