Chapter 10 - Critical Thinking And The Nursing Process

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Nurses need

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critical-thinking skills and attitudes to be safe competent, skillful practitioners.

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Critical thinking

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is a process that guides a nurse in generating, implementing, and evaluating approaches for dealing with client care and professional concepts.

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Nurses use critical thinking as

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they apply knowledge from other subjects and fields to nursing practice, deal with change in stressful environments, and make important decisions related to client care.

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When nurses incorporate creativity into their thinking

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they are able to find unique solutions to unique problems.

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Creativity enhances critical thinking. Creative nurses

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generate many ideas rapidly, are flexible and natural, create original solutions to problems, tend to be independent and self-confident, and demonstrate individuality.

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Critical-thinking skills include

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the ability to do critical analysis, perform inductive and deductive reasoning, make valid inferences, differentiate facts from opinions, evaluate the credibility of information sources, clarify concepts, and recognize assumptions.

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Critical thinkers have certain attitudes:

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independence, fairmindedness, insight, intellectual humility, intellectual courage to challenge the status quo and rituals, integrity, perseverance, confidence, and curiosity.

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Critical thinking consists of high-level cognitive processes that include

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problem solving and decision making.

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There are several problem-solving methods

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trial and error, intuition, the nursing process, the scientific method, and the modified scientific method. Nurses use the scientific method or the research process when participating in research.

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The nursing process and critical thinking are

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interrelated and interdependent, but they are not identical. Both involve problem solving, decision making, and creativity.

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The steps of the decision-making process include

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identifying the purpose of the decision, setting the criteria, weighting the criteria, seeking alternatives, examining alternatives, projecting, implementing, and evaluating the action.

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Some guidelines to enhance critical-thinking skills and attitudes include

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performing a self-assessment, tolerating dissonance and ambiguity, seeking situations where good thinking is productive, and creating environments that support critical thinking.