Category 1
Critical thinking requires _____ rather than simply WHAT to think
What is How
Be orderly in collecting data about patients.
What is interpretation?
using our knowledge base , or what we know to make decisions, generate new ideas, and solve problems
What is critical thinking?
What is the basis for clinical judgements that result from critical thinking?
Evidence based practice
What governs standards of care for nurses?
Nurse Practice Act establishes the scope of practice for each level of nursing. Part of the Ohio Revised Code
State boards enforce practice laws (OBN)
What did the Joint Commission develop to assist health care providers to effectively improve patient care and safety concerns for patients
National Patient Safety Goals
I guide critical thinking
What are standards, policies and procedures, ethics, and laws
what types of things are involved in planning interventions
measurable, timeframe, realistic
which tool is used to gather data to identify signs and symptoms of common problems in the elderly population?
SPICES S: Sleep disorders, P: Problems with eating, I: incontinence, C: Confusion, E: Evidence of falls, S: Skin Breakdown
Reflect on your experiences and patient responses as they occur
Reflecting in action
what is a step by step approach directed at planning and providing patient care.
Nursing process
You must apply these to critical thinking
What are logic, intuition, and creativity
Data collection, Planning, Implementation, and evaluation are?
The nursing process
Which thinking skill requires the nurse to notice a change in the patient?
Identifying signs and symptoms
reflecting on what happened, how things were handled, how we felt during the process, how interventions affected patients and what lessons were learned for future similar situations
evaluating and correcting thinking (reflection-on-action)
In the nursing process, planning matches which step in Tanners?
Interpreting
It involves purposeful thinking back or recalling a situation to discover it purpose or meaning
What is reflection
What is considered a secondary source of information?
Family member, physician, previous shift, medical records
Process of drawing conclusions from related pieces of evidence
What is inference?
Comparing and sorting through information, ranking it in order of importance, to decide what to do first
What is Setting Priorities
the application of the rules of logic as well as gathering evidence, evaluating it, and coming up with a plan of action
What does critical thinking involve?
responding in Tanners is equal to which step in nursing process?
Implementation
When you graduate from OBC what stage of Benners theory will you be?
Advanced beginner
Vital signs, labs, level of consciousness, collecting subjective and objective data
What is the Assessment
Looking at 2 similar cases, identifying the subtle differences, and acting on them
comparing and contrasting