Use of Critical Thinking in Nursing
Critical thinking is vital for nurses to perform their jobs effectively and appropriately. Critical thinking is the “intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing or evaluating information gathered from observation, experience…reasoning or communication as a guide to belief and action.”(CITE) Critical thinking is the active and continuous process of analyzing information to guide nurses to judge appropriate care for their patients. Moreover, when nurses implement critical thinking with nursing goals, patient information, assumptions, implications and consequences they will have better judgment and make better decisions in the clinical setting.
According to Loucine, implementing critical thinking in the nursing process can help nurses effectively propose goals and objectives (2009). In other words, nurses are able to effectively handle actual or potential situations in a systematic order. Critical thinking tools include relevance and significance. Relevance may be use to …show more content…
Subjective and objective information are used to aid nurses to make a nursing diagnosis (CITE). In other words, nurses need to use critical thinking to be able to properly diagnose a patient. It is imperative that a nurse use critical thinking while looking at patient’s lab values, vital signs, and medication orders. Critical thinking allows nurses to understand how and why lab values can affect a patient’ health, how and why vitals signs can change and why a patient is receiving a certain medication and how the medication can affect the patient. For example, nurses would use critical thinking to monitor the apical pulse for a minute before administering digoxin because digoxin can slow the patient’s heart beat and if the patient already has a slower heart beat this can cause heart
Critical thinking is vital for nurses to perform their jobs effectively and appropriately. Critical thinking is the “intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing or evaluating information gathered from observation, experience…reasoning or communication as a guide to belief and action.”(CITE) Critical thinking is the active and continuous process of analyzing information to guide nurses to judge appropriate care for their patients. Moreover, when nurses implement critical thinking with nursing goals, patient information, assumptions, implications and consequences they will have better judgment and make better decisions in the clinical setting.
According to Loucine, implementing critical thinking in the nursing process can help nurses effectively propose goals and objectives (2009). In other words, nurses are able to effectively handle actual or potential situations in a systematic order. Critical thinking tools include relevance and significance. Relevance may be use to …show more content…
Subjective and objective information are used to aid nurses to make a nursing diagnosis (CITE). In other words, nurses need to use critical thinking to be able to properly diagnose a patient. It is imperative that a nurse use critical thinking while looking at patient’s lab values, vital signs, and medication orders. Critical thinking allows nurses to understand how and why lab values can affect a patient’ health, how and why vitals signs can change and why a patient is receiving a certain medication and how the medication can affect the patient. For example, nurses would use critical thinking to monitor the apical pulse for a minute before administering digoxin because digoxin can slow the patient’s heart beat and if the patient already has a slower heart beat this can cause heart