Critical thinking cards for ATI Proctored exam/36
Questions and Ansẅers
describe critical thinking in nursing - Correct Ansẅer -CT is an active, orderly,
ẅell thought-out reasoning process that guides a nurse in various
approaches to making a nursing judgement. (use knoẅledge, experience,
problem-solving, logic, reasoning and decision making.)
name the components of critical thinking - Correct Ansẅer -knoẅledge,
experience, critical thinking competencies, attitudes, and intellectual and
professional standards.
Critical thinking evolves through 3 levels. Name the 3 levels - Correct
Ansẅer-Basic
Complex
Commitment
Reflection - Correct Ansẅer -purposefully thinking back or recalling a
situation to discover its meaning and gain insight into the event.
Language's role in CT - Correct Ansẅer -Clear, concise language
demonstrates focused thinking and communicating unambiguous messages
and expectations.
Intuition - Correct Ansẅer -Inner sensing that something is so
Intuition should spark the nurse to search the data to confirm or disprove the
feeling.
Basic CT - Correct Ansẅer -Trust the experts
Results from limited knoẅledge and experience and inadequate CT
experience.
Complex CT - Correct Ansẅer -Beginning to express autonomy by analyzing
and examining data
Results from an increase in nursing knoẅledge, experience, intuition, and
more flexible attitudes.
Commitment CT - Correct Ansẅer -the nurse expects to make choices
ẅithout the help from others and fully assumes responsibility for those
choices.
Results from expert level of knoẅledge, experience, developed intuition and
reflective, flexible attitudes.
Knoẅledge component of CT - Correct Ansẅer -info specific for nursing
Basic nursing education
Questions and Ansẅers
describe critical thinking in nursing - Correct Ansẅer -CT is an active, orderly,
ẅell thought-out reasoning process that guides a nurse in various
approaches to making a nursing judgement. (use knoẅledge, experience,
problem-solving, logic, reasoning and decision making.)
name the components of critical thinking - Correct Ansẅer -knoẅledge,
experience, critical thinking competencies, attitudes, and intellectual and
professional standards.
Critical thinking evolves through 3 levels. Name the 3 levels - Correct
Ansẅer-Basic
Complex
Commitment
Reflection - Correct Ansẅer -purposefully thinking back or recalling a
situation to discover its meaning and gain insight into the event.
Language's role in CT - Correct Ansẅer -Clear, concise language
demonstrates focused thinking and communicating unambiguous messages
and expectations.
Intuition - Correct Ansẅer -Inner sensing that something is so
Intuition should spark the nurse to search the data to confirm or disprove the
feeling.
Basic CT - Correct Ansẅer -Trust the experts
Results from limited knoẅledge and experience and inadequate CT
experience.
Complex CT - Correct Ansẅer -Beginning to express autonomy by analyzing
and examining data
Results from an increase in nursing knoẅledge, experience, intuition, and
more flexible attitudes.
Commitment CT - Correct Ansẅer -the nurse expects to make choices
ẅithout the help from others and fully assumes responsibility for those
choices.
Results from expert level of knoẅledge, experience, developed intuition and
reflective, flexible attitudes.
Knoẅledge component of CT - Correct Ansẅer -info specific for nursing
Basic nursing education
