RLGN 104 CRITICAL THINKING TEST
PAPER QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
VERIFIED ANSWERS
●● clinical judgment
Answer: "Thinking Like A Nurse". integral to the Safety of pt.
Interpretation or conclusion about a patient's needs, concerns, or health
problems, and/or the decision to take action (or not), use or modify
standard approaches, or improvise new ones as deemed appropriate by
the patient's response.
●● Database
Answer: Completed health history and physical examination, large store
or bank of info
●● clinical reasoning
Answer: is the thinking process by which a nurse reaches a clinical
judgement. an iterative process of noticing, interpreting, and responding-
reasoning in transition with a fine attunement to the patient and how the
patient responds to the nurses action
●● Psychosocial history
Answer: Psychological and social factors
,●● evidence-based practice
Answer: clinical decision making that integrates the best available
research with clinical expertise and patient characteristics and
preferences
●● 1st method of data collection
Answer: Interiew patient, health history. Patient is your primary source
●● Tanner's Model
Answer: Noticing
Interpreting
Responding
Reflecting
●● 2nd method of data collection
Answer: Physical examination ( guided by subjective and objective)
●● noticing (tanners model)
Answer: identify s/s, gather complete and accurate data, assessing
systematically and comprehensively, *predicting (and managing)
potential complications, identifying assumptions
●● Concepts of clinical judgment
, Answer: 1. Safety
2. Healthcare quality
3. Leadership
4. Patient education
5. Evidence
6. Professionalism
7. Care coordination
●● objective data (noticing)
Answer: information that is seen, heard, felt, or smelled by an observer;
signs
●● Analytic reasoning
Answer: Situation is unfamiliar
●● subjective data (noticing)
Answer: things a person tells you about that you cannot observe through
your senses; symptoms
●● Intuitive reasoning
Answer: Able to recognize the situation immedialy. Pattern based
●● factors that influence "Noticing"
PAPER QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
VERIFIED ANSWERS
●● clinical judgment
Answer: "Thinking Like A Nurse". integral to the Safety of pt.
Interpretation or conclusion about a patient's needs, concerns, or health
problems, and/or the decision to take action (or not), use or modify
standard approaches, or improvise new ones as deemed appropriate by
the patient's response.
●● Database
Answer: Completed health history and physical examination, large store
or bank of info
●● clinical reasoning
Answer: is the thinking process by which a nurse reaches a clinical
judgement. an iterative process of noticing, interpreting, and responding-
reasoning in transition with a fine attunement to the patient and how the
patient responds to the nurses action
●● Psychosocial history
Answer: Psychological and social factors
,●● evidence-based practice
Answer: clinical decision making that integrates the best available
research with clinical expertise and patient characteristics and
preferences
●● 1st method of data collection
Answer: Interiew patient, health history. Patient is your primary source
●● Tanner's Model
Answer: Noticing
Interpreting
Responding
Reflecting
●● 2nd method of data collection
Answer: Physical examination ( guided by subjective and objective)
●● noticing (tanners model)
Answer: identify s/s, gather complete and accurate data, assessing
systematically and comprehensively, *predicting (and managing)
potential complications, identifying assumptions
●● Concepts of clinical judgment
, Answer: 1. Safety
2. Healthcare quality
3. Leadership
4. Patient education
5. Evidence
6. Professionalism
7. Care coordination
●● objective data (noticing)
Answer: information that is seen, heard, felt, or smelled by an observer;
signs
●● Analytic reasoning
Answer: Situation is unfamiliar
●● subjective data (noticing)
Answer: things a person tells you about that you cannot observe through
your senses; symptoms
●● Intuitive reasoning
Answer: Able to recognize the situation immedialy. Pattern based
●● factors that influence "Noticing"
