Critical thinking NUR 200 Hondros
Questions and answers
Complete assessment - ANS✅✅A review and physical examination of all body systems, for stable
patients only
Database - ANS✅✅Completed health history and physical examination, large store or bank of info
Psychosocial history - ANS✅✅Psychological and social factors
1st method of data collection - ANS✅✅Interiew patient, health history. Patient is your primary
source
2nd method of data collection - ANS✅✅Physical examination ( guided by subjective and objective)
Concepts of clinical judgment - ANS✅✅1. Safety
2. Healthcare quality
3. Leadership
4. Patient education
5. Evidence
6. Professionalism
7. Care coordination
Analytic reasoning - ANS✅✅Situation is unfamiliar
Intuitive reasoning - ANS✅✅Able to recognize the situation immedialy. Pattern based
Narrative reasoning - ANS✅✅Situation to patient experience with illness.
Noticing - ANS✅✅1. Identify signs and symptoms
, 2. Complete and accurate date
3. Assessing systemically and comprehensively
4. Predicting and managing patient complications
5. Identifying assumptions
Interpreting - ANS✅✅Understanding of the situation
Responding - ANS✅✅Based on what you interpreted the nurse will determine appropriate actions
Reflection in action - ANS✅✅Observing patient reaction to the action the nurse chose and
deciding if the situation was fixed
Reflection on action - ANS✅✅Patient responses to the outcomes. Nursing refelection after the
situation was solved
Novice nurse - ANS✅✅Uses analytic reasoning. Uses textbook in a systemic analysis of a situation
Expert nurse - ANS✅✅Uses intuitive reasoing. Recognizes patterns immediatly. Able to look at the
big picture
Assessment - ANS✅✅Collecting and analyzing data from the patient, family members, health care
team
Who does the initial assessment - ANS✅✅RN
Focused assessment - ANS✅✅Used to gather information on a specific problem
Head to toe assessment - ANS✅✅Systemic approach so you dont miss something
Objective data - ANS✅✅What you can observe or measure. Also known as signs
Subjective data - ANS✅✅Can not be measured. What the patient is feeling. Also known as
symptoms
Questions and answers
Complete assessment - ANS✅✅A review and physical examination of all body systems, for stable
patients only
Database - ANS✅✅Completed health history and physical examination, large store or bank of info
Psychosocial history - ANS✅✅Psychological and social factors
1st method of data collection - ANS✅✅Interiew patient, health history. Patient is your primary
source
2nd method of data collection - ANS✅✅Physical examination ( guided by subjective and objective)
Concepts of clinical judgment - ANS✅✅1. Safety
2. Healthcare quality
3. Leadership
4. Patient education
5. Evidence
6. Professionalism
7. Care coordination
Analytic reasoning - ANS✅✅Situation is unfamiliar
Intuitive reasoning - ANS✅✅Able to recognize the situation immedialy. Pattern based
Narrative reasoning - ANS✅✅Situation to patient experience with illness.
Noticing - ANS✅✅1. Identify signs and symptoms
, 2. Complete and accurate date
3. Assessing systemically and comprehensively
4. Predicting and managing patient complications
5. Identifying assumptions
Interpreting - ANS✅✅Understanding of the situation
Responding - ANS✅✅Based on what you interpreted the nurse will determine appropriate actions
Reflection in action - ANS✅✅Observing patient reaction to the action the nurse chose and
deciding if the situation was fixed
Reflection on action - ANS✅✅Patient responses to the outcomes. Nursing refelection after the
situation was solved
Novice nurse - ANS✅✅Uses analytic reasoning. Uses textbook in a systemic analysis of a situation
Expert nurse - ANS✅✅Uses intuitive reasoing. Recognizes patterns immediatly. Able to look at the
big picture
Assessment - ANS✅✅Collecting and analyzing data from the patient, family members, health care
team
Who does the initial assessment - ANS✅✅RN
Focused assessment - ANS✅✅Used to gather information on a specific problem
Head to toe assessment - ANS✅✅Systemic approach so you dont miss something
Objective data - ANS✅✅What you can observe or measure. Also known as signs
Subjective data - ANS✅✅Can not be measured. What the patient is feeling. Also known as
symptoms