Critical Thinking
Nursing Process
Definitions
Critical Thinking in the Nursing Process
100
Assess, analyze, plan, implement, evaluate
What are critical thinking skills/steps?
100
This nursing process usually follows after assessment.
What is the nursing diagnosis?
100
All the definitions agree that this is a cognitive skill that involves logical thinking
What is critical thinking
100
Critical thinking has become the new what across the nursing spectrum
What is the new buzzword?
200
The nurse reads a physician order for a very common drug, but the dosage seems higher than normal, the nurse contacts the physician to discuss the order
What is clarification?
200
A patient complains of pain in his back and you ask the patient to rate the severity of the pain as well as the location and duration of the pain. This is known as...
What is assessment?
200
The process known as the framework used to help nurses think critically about solving patient problems
What is the nursing process?
200
Nursing experience affects ones critical thinking ability. T or F
What is true?
300
Self disciplined, Mindful, Logical, Open-minded, Self-confident, Creative, Intellectual
What are characteristics of a critical thinker?
300
What we want the patient to achieve by implementing nursing orders?
What is the expected outcome?
300
Through the mapping process, learners examine their knowledge and learn to think in more critical and complex ways rather then only in linear manner
What is concept mapping?
300
According to research this is a common, effective method of teaching critical thinking skills to nursing students.
What are case studies?
400
Arrogance, conformarity, narrow-mindedness
What are negative intellectual traits of a critical thinker?
400
After teaching a young boy how to administer insulin on his own, you have a seat in the nursing station and discuss what happened and how you felt over all- this is known as what stage in the nursing process.
What is evaluation?
400
The connection between theory in the classroom setting and clinical setting is missed
What is the theory-practice gap?
400
During the planning stage of the nursing process, critical thinking can have you ask yourself this
What is what are the goals for the patient?
500
They require that critical thinking be included in nursing curricula
What is the American Association of Colleges of Nursing and the National League for Nursing
500
After assessing the patient and finding out that they have a weakened range of motion and fatigue easily, it would be safe to say that this nurse is in what stage of the nursing process.
What is diagnosis stage.
500
Practice nurses are seen as those who implement care in reality. Those who write and teach about the ideal of nursing practices are called..
What is a nursing theorist?
500
Why is critical thinking so important to nurses/nursing processes.
What is; to recognize patterns of behavior, to anticipate clients needs, develop nursing care plans and promote health/healing as well making reasoned judgments of various different actions.