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Create a personal plan for test preparation and review. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-
Pre-read before lectures
- flashcards for review
- self test
- make concept maps
Identify a working definition of critical thinking - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A complex
task that requires an understanding of how people thing through problems;
thinking outside the box.
,Thinker improves quality of thinking by skillfully taking charge of structures
inherent in thinking and imposing intellectual standards upon them.
Identify the characteristics of a critical thinker - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1) Raises
questions, problems dnd formulates them precisely and clearly.
2) Gathers and assesses relevant information using abstract ideas for
interpretation.
3) Arrives at conclusions/solutions that are well reasoned
4) Open-minded
5) communicates effectively with others.
Discuss how nurses use critical thinking and clinical judgement in practice.
- 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Patient interaction: nurses ask themselves:
"what assumption have I made about the patient? How accurate are theses
assumptions? Do I need more information? How can I look at the situation
differently?"
, Nursing process is a method of critical thinking focused on solving
problems in a clinical setting.
Distinguish between novice thinking vs. expert thinking - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A
novice thinker:
- rely on resources
- lack self confidence
- follow procedures directly
- has limited knowledge of problems and how to solve them
- learns better with a mentor
An expert thinker:
- highly organized and structured knowledge
- knows rules and when to bend them
- Aware of resources and how to use them
- self confidence
- Knows when to skip steps in procedures
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