ECPI 2020: COR 195: CHAPTER 1 & 2
UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Nurse Process: - CORRECT ANSWER - Assess
Diagnosis
Analyze
Plan
Implement
Evaluate
- Major tool for clinical reasoning
Emotional Quotient: - CORRECT ANSWER - Emotional intelligence
Right Brain: - CORRECT ANSWER - - Creative
- Generating new ideas
Left Brain: - CORRECT ANSWER - - Math/analytical
- Judging the worth of those ideas
Umbrella Term: - CORRECT ANSWER - Critical thinking is an umbrella term that includes
the terms critical reasoning (CR) and critical judgement (CJ).
Critical Thinking: - CORRECT ANSWER - - "Important thinking" you need to do to answer
questions, or assess , prevent, manage problems.
- Reasoning both inside and outside clinical setting
,What is the difference between thinking and critical thinking? - CORRECT ANSWER -
Critical thinking requires purpose and control, whereas thinking could be daydreaming.
Synonym for critical thinking? - CORRECT ANSWER - Reasoning because it implies
careful, deliberate thought.
Clinical Reasoning (CR): - CORRECT ANSWER - Processes you use to think about issues at
the point of care.
- Ex: deciding how to prevent/manage patient problems
- Process: Critical thinking/clinical reasoning
Clinical Judgement (CJ): - CORRECT ANSWER - Refers to the result (outcome) of critical
thinking or clinical reasoning - the conclusion, decision, or opinion you make after thinking
about the issues.
- Result - Clinical judgement
Critical Thinking In Nursing: - CORRECT ANSWER - - Includes clinical reasoning and
clinical judgement - is purposeful, informed, outcome - focused thinking that:
- Guided by standards, policies, ethic codes, laws
- Driven by patient, family, community needs as well as nurses needs to give efficient/competent
care
- Based on principles of nursing process, problem-solving, and scientific method
- Focuses on safety and quality, constantly re-evaluating, self-correcting, striving to improve
- Carefully identifies key problems, issues, risks, involved, including patients, families, key
stakeholders in decision-making early in the process. Stakeholders will be most affected
(patients/families) or from whom requirements will be drawn
- Uses logic, intuition, creativity and is grounded in specific knowledge, skills, experience.
- Calls for strategies that make most of human potential and compensate for problems created by
human nature
, Common Sense: - CORRECT ANSWER - - Usually learned from experiences
- Everyone's common sense is different
Ideal Critical Thinker: - CORRECT ANSWER - - Is habitually inquisitive
- Self-informed
- Trustful of reason
- Open-minded
- Flexible
- Fair-minded in evaluation
- Honest in facing personal biases
- Prudent in making judgements
- Willing to reconsider
- Clear about issues
- Orderly in complex matters
- Diligent in seeking relevant information
- Reasonable in selecting criteria
- Focused in inquiry and present in seeking results that are as precise as the subject and the
circumstances of inquiry permit
Personal Critical Thinking Indicators: - CORRECT ANSWER - - Self aware
- Genuine/authentic
- Effective communication
- Curious and inquisitive
- Alert to context
- Reflective and self-corrective
- Analytical and insightful
- Logical and intuitive
UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Nurse Process: - CORRECT ANSWER - Assess
Diagnosis
Analyze
Plan
Implement
Evaluate
- Major tool for clinical reasoning
Emotional Quotient: - CORRECT ANSWER - Emotional intelligence
Right Brain: - CORRECT ANSWER - - Creative
- Generating new ideas
Left Brain: - CORRECT ANSWER - - Math/analytical
- Judging the worth of those ideas
Umbrella Term: - CORRECT ANSWER - Critical thinking is an umbrella term that includes
the terms critical reasoning (CR) and critical judgement (CJ).
Critical Thinking: - CORRECT ANSWER - - "Important thinking" you need to do to answer
questions, or assess , prevent, manage problems.
- Reasoning both inside and outside clinical setting
,What is the difference between thinking and critical thinking? - CORRECT ANSWER -
Critical thinking requires purpose and control, whereas thinking could be daydreaming.
Synonym for critical thinking? - CORRECT ANSWER - Reasoning because it implies
careful, deliberate thought.
Clinical Reasoning (CR): - CORRECT ANSWER - Processes you use to think about issues at
the point of care.
- Ex: deciding how to prevent/manage patient problems
- Process: Critical thinking/clinical reasoning
Clinical Judgement (CJ): - CORRECT ANSWER - Refers to the result (outcome) of critical
thinking or clinical reasoning - the conclusion, decision, or opinion you make after thinking
about the issues.
- Result - Clinical judgement
Critical Thinking In Nursing: - CORRECT ANSWER - - Includes clinical reasoning and
clinical judgement - is purposeful, informed, outcome - focused thinking that:
- Guided by standards, policies, ethic codes, laws
- Driven by patient, family, community needs as well as nurses needs to give efficient/competent
care
- Based on principles of nursing process, problem-solving, and scientific method
- Focuses on safety and quality, constantly re-evaluating, self-correcting, striving to improve
- Carefully identifies key problems, issues, risks, involved, including patients, families, key
stakeholders in decision-making early in the process. Stakeholders will be most affected
(patients/families) or from whom requirements will be drawn
- Uses logic, intuition, creativity and is grounded in specific knowledge, skills, experience.
- Calls for strategies that make most of human potential and compensate for problems created by
human nature
, Common Sense: - CORRECT ANSWER - - Usually learned from experiences
- Everyone's common sense is different
Ideal Critical Thinker: - CORRECT ANSWER - - Is habitually inquisitive
- Self-informed
- Trustful of reason
- Open-minded
- Flexible
- Fair-minded in evaluation
- Honest in facing personal biases
- Prudent in making judgements
- Willing to reconsider
- Clear about issues
- Orderly in complex matters
- Diligent in seeking relevant information
- Reasonable in selecting criteria
- Focused in inquiry and present in seeking results that are as precise as the subject and the
circumstances of inquiry permit
Personal Critical Thinking Indicators: - CORRECT ANSWER - - Self aware
- Genuine/authentic
- Effective communication
- Curious and inquisitive
- Alert to context
- Reflective and self-corrective
- Analytical and insightful
- Logical and intuitive
