CRITICAL THINKING ENTRANCE 40 PROBLEM
SOLVING AND DECISION MAKING
BREAKDOWN 2026
◉ Nurses must use multiple thinking skills... Answer: Critical
thinking skills
* interpretation
* analysis
* evaluation
* inference
* explanation
...to make clinical judgments about problems in nursing practice.
A Nursing knowledgeable with fundamental thinking skills,
including recall and comprehension, is a prerequisite to critical
thinking in nursing.
◉ Levels of critical thinking Answer: - Basic Critical Thinking
- Experience Critical Thinking
- Commitment
◉ Basic critical thinking Answer: nurse trust the experts and thinks
concretely based on the rules.
, - Results from limited nursing knowledge and experience, as well as
inadequate critical thinking experience.
◉ Complex critical thinking Answer: nurse begins to express
autonomy by analyzing and examine data to determine best
alternative.
- Results from an increase in level of knowledge, experience,
developed intuition
◉ Commitment Answer: nurse expects to make choices without help
from others.
- Fully assumes the responsibility
- Results from an expert level of knowledge, experience, developed
intuition, and reflective, flextime attitudes.
◉ Components of critical thinking Answer: CAKES
* Competence
* Attitudes
* Knowledge
* Experience
* Standards
SOLVING AND DECISION MAKING
BREAKDOWN 2026
◉ Nurses must use multiple thinking skills... Answer: Critical
thinking skills
* interpretation
* analysis
* evaluation
* inference
* explanation
...to make clinical judgments about problems in nursing practice.
A Nursing knowledgeable with fundamental thinking skills,
including recall and comprehension, is a prerequisite to critical
thinking in nursing.
◉ Levels of critical thinking Answer: - Basic Critical Thinking
- Experience Critical Thinking
- Commitment
◉ Basic critical thinking Answer: nurse trust the experts and thinks
concretely based on the rules.
, - Results from limited nursing knowledge and experience, as well as
inadequate critical thinking experience.
◉ Complex critical thinking Answer: nurse begins to express
autonomy by analyzing and examine data to determine best
alternative.
- Results from an increase in level of knowledge, experience,
developed intuition
◉ Commitment Answer: nurse expects to make choices without help
from others.
- Fully assumes the responsibility
- Results from an expert level of knowledge, experience, developed
intuition, and reflective, flextime attitudes.
◉ Components of critical thinking Answer: CAKES
* Competence
* Attitudes
* Knowledge
* Experience
* Standards
