NUR 2101_Critical Thinking and Critical Reasoning
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What is Critical Thinking? "Critical thinking in nursing practice is a discipline
specific, reflective reasoning process that guides a
nurse in generating, implementing, and evaluating
approaches for dealing with client care and
profession concerns"
Critical thinking is an essential component of
clinical decision making.
Why is critical thinking essential to ~ Essential to safe, competent, skilful nursing
nursing practice? practice
~ Making decisions about client care in the midst of
limited resources, no clear answers or standard
procedures, and conflicting forces = turns decision
making into a complex process.
~ Essential to master critical-thinking skills in order
to process and evaluate both previously learned
and new information
, How do nurses use critical thinking? ~ Nurses use knowledge from other subjects and
fields: draw meaningful information from other
subject areas in order to understand the meaning
of client data and to plan effective interventions.
~ Nurses deal with change in stressful
environments: rapidly changing situations;
treatments, medications, and technology change
constantly; a client's condition may change from
minute to minute. Routine actions may therefore
not be adequate to deal with the situation at hand.
~ Nurses make important decisions: nurses make
vital decisions of many kinds in a given day -
decisions that may be life and death
~ Nurses work as part of a team: teams = differing
opinions, beliefs, and biases presented regarding
clinical decisions. The nurse gathers the information
and sorts through it using critical thinking in order
to make sound decisions regarding client care and
nursing practice.
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Terms in this set (46)
What is Critical Thinking? "Critical thinking in nursing practice is a discipline
specific, reflective reasoning process that guides a
nurse in generating, implementing, and evaluating
approaches for dealing with client care and
profession concerns"
Critical thinking is an essential component of
clinical decision making.
Why is critical thinking essential to ~ Essential to safe, competent, skilful nursing
nursing practice? practice
~ Making decisions about client care in the midst of
limited resources, no clear answers or standard
procedures, and conflicting forces = turns decision
making into a complex process.
~ Essential to master critical-thinking skills in order
to process and evaluate both previously learned
and new information
, How do nurses use critical thinking? ~ Nurses use knowledge from other subjects and
fields: draw meaningful information from other
subject areas in order to understand the meaning
of client data and to plan effective interventions.
~ Nurses deal with change in stressful
environments: rapidly changing situations;
treatments, medications, and technology change
constantly; a client's condition may change from
minute to minute. Routine actions may therefore
not be adequate to deal with the situation at hand.
~ Nurses make important decisions: nurses make
vital decisions of many kinds in a given day -
decisions that may be life and death
~ Nurses work as part of a team: teams = differing
opinions, beliefs, and biases presented regarding
clinical decisions. The nurse gathers the information
and sorts through it using critical thinking in order
to make sound decisions regarding client care and
nursing practice.
