NURS 2300 UTA Exam 2 blueprint 2025
Questions and Answers
Identify personal factors that affect focus and concentration - --CORRECT
ANSWER--- Awake and Alert
- Positive attitude
- External distraction
- Internal distraction
- Working at a fast pace
- Ability to study for extended periods of time
- Clues to start studying
Create a personal plan to enhance focus and concentration - --CORRECT
ANSWER--- Answers may vary (depends on the individual)
Identify a working definition of critical thinking - --CORRECT ANSWER---
Complex task that requires an understanding of how people think through
problems
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, - The thinker improves the quality of his or her thinking by skillfully taking charge
of the structures inherent in thinking and imposing intellectual standards upon
them
Identify the characteristics of critical thinker - --CORRECT ANSWER--- Raises
questions, problems, and formulates them precisely and clearly
- Gathers and assesses relevant information using abstract ideas for interpretation
- Arrives at conclusions and solutions that are well reasoned and tests them against
relevant standards
- Is open-minded and recognizes alternate ways of seeing problems
- communicates effectively with others
Discuss how nurses use critical thinking and clinical judgment in practice - --
CORRECT ANSWER--- When interacting with patients (asking themselves
questions such as: what assumption have I made about the patient? How accurate
are my assumptions? Do I need any more information? or How can I look at the
situation differently?)
- The nursing process is a method of critical thinking focused on solving problems
in a professional setting
Distinguish between novice thinking and expert thinking - --CORRECT
ANSWER--Novice
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Questions and Answers
Identify personal factors that affect focus and concentration - --CORRECT
ANSWER--- Awake and Alert
- Positive attitude
- External distraction
- Internal distraction
- Working at a fast pace
- Ability to study for extended periods of time
- Clues to start studying
Create a personal plan to enhance focus and concentration - --CORRECT
ANSWER--- Answers may vary (depends on the individual)
Identify a working definition of critical thinking - --CORRECT ANSWER---
Complex task that requires an understanding of how people think through
problems
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, - The thinker improves the quality of his or her thinking by skillfully taking charge
of the structures inherent in thinking and imposing intellectual standards upon
them
Identify the characteristics of critical thinker - --CORRECT ANSWER--- Raises
questions, problems, and formulates them precisely and clearly
- Gathers and assesses relevant information using abstract ideas for interpretation
- Arrives at conclusions and solutions that are well reasoned and tests them against
relevant standards
- Is open-minded and recognizes alternate ways of seeing problems
- communicates effectively with others
Discuss how nurses use critical thinking and clinical judgment in practice - --
CORRECT ANSWER--- When interacting with patients (asking themselves
questions such as: what assumption have I made about the patient? How accurate
are my assumptions? Do I need any more information? or How can I look at the
situation differently?)
- The nursing process is a method of critical thinking focused on solving problems
in a professional setting
Distinguish between novice thinking and expert thinking - --CORRECT
ANSWER--Novice
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