Critical thinking
This is an intentional higher-level reasoning process.
What is critical thinking?
This process involves gathering and analyzing information to improve outcomes.
What is clinical reasoning?
ADPIE begins with this step.
What is assessment?
“I feel worried” represents this type of data.
What is subjective data?
EBP integrates evidence, expertise, and this.
What is patient preferences?
Analyzing, applying standards, and predicting are examples of these skills.
What are critical thinking skills?
This priority-setting acronym stands for airway, breathing, circulation.
What is ABC?
Planning requires setting these measurable expectations.
What are goals/outcomes?
This assessment type identifies life‑threatening problems.
What is emergency?
Type of nursing diagnosis that demonstrates a patient's readiness to learn.
What is health promotion diagnosis?
Thinking of the greater good instead of yourself reflects this critical thinking attitude.
What is insight into egocentricity?
Checking to see if a lab is worse or better than it was on previous shifts.
What are trends?
Determining what went well and what needs to change is this step.
What is evaluation?
Vital signs and wound appearance represent this type of data.
What is objective data?
Using two identifiers ensures this.
What is patient safety?
Persisting despite difficulty demonstrates this attitude.
What is perseverance?
Preventing issues before they happen addresses this.
What are potential problems?
Interventions occur during this step.
What is implementation?
Comparing current status to baseline represents this assessment.
What is time-lapsed?
Sharing research findings with colleagues is known as this.
What is disseminating evidence?
Recognizing your own intellectual limitations is known as this.
What is intellectual humility?
Notifying a provider when an abnormal trend appears shows this nursing skill.
What is clinical decision making?
Avoiding medical diagnoses in this step is essential.
What is nursing diagnosis or diagnosis?
Open‑ended questioning is part of this data collection method.
What is interviewing?
A clinical judgment about likely future problems represents this type of nursing diagnosis.
What is risk nursing diagnosis?