is an essential skill that involves the interpretation of a patient’s needs, concerns, or health problems and the decision to take action or not, to use or modify standard approaches, or to improvise new approaches on the basis of a patient’s response.
Clinical judgement
Be orderly in collecting data about pts, apply reasoning when looking for patterns.
Ex. nursing diagnoses
Interpretation
see the true meaning of a situation. be courageous, honest, and objective about asking question.
Truth-seeking
3 nursing competencies
Specific Critical Thinking
Nursing Process as a competency
Name three Critical Thinking attitudes
Confidence
Thinking Indepenently
Fairness
Responsibility and authrotiy
risk taking
discipline
perserverance
creativity
curiosity
integrity
humility
Turning over a subject in the mind and thinking about it seriously, thinking back or recalling a situation.
reflection
Be open-minded as you look at information about a pt. Do not make careless assumptions.
Analysis
Analyze potentially problematic situations; anticipate possibel results or consequences; value reason; use evidence-based knowledge.
Analyticity
the involvement of evalutatin of a situation over time, identifying possible solutions, and trying a solutioni over time to make sure that it is effective
problem solving
when you recognize when yu need more information to make a desions. ASK FOR HELP
Admit when you are wrong
HUMILITY
The scientific method is a step-by-step process, the steps are
Identify the problem
Collect the data
Formulate a question or Hypothesis
Test the question or hypothesis
Evaluate results of the test or study
Support you findings and conclusions. Use knowledge and experience to choose strategies to use in the care of pts.
explanation
Be organized, focuses; work hard in any inquiry
Systematicity
the product of a critical thinking that focuses on problem resolution
decision making
If your knowlege causes you to question a health care providers order, do so. Reccomned alternatives
Risk Taking
a visual representation of a pt problelm and interventions that shows relationships.
concept map
Reflect on your experiences. Be responsible for connecting you actions with outcomes. Identify the ways you can imporve you own perfomance. What will make you believe that you have been succesful.
Self-reuglation
Be eager to acquire knowledge and learn eplanations even when applications of the knowledge are not immediately clear. Value learning for learning's sake.
analytical process for determining a patient's health prbolesm. An accurate recognition of a patient's problems is necessary before you decide on solutions and implement action
Diagnositc reasoning
Read the nursing literature, especially when there are different views on the same subject. Talk with other nurse and share ideas about nursing interventions.
Thinking independetly
the process of drawing conclusions form related pieces of evdience and previous experience with the evidence--part of diagnositc reasoning
inference
6 What are the steps of the Skills
Interpretation
Analysis
Inference
Evaluation
Explanation
Self-regulation
Truth Seeking
Open-mindedness
Analyticity
Systematicity
Self-confidence
Inquitiveness
Maturity
requires careful reasoning
choose the option for the best patients outcomes on the basis of a patients condition and the priority of the problem
clinical decision making
Be cautious of an easy answer. If co-workesr give you info about a pt and some fact seems to be missing, calrify the info or tlak to the pat directyly
perseverance.