S.g.a. 15

Front 1

Clinical Decision Making

Back 1

Problem solving approach that nurses use to define patient problems and select appropriate treatment

Front 2

Concept Map

Back 2

Care planning tool that assists in critical thinking and forming associations between a patient’s nursing diagnosis and interventions

Front 3

Critical Thinking

Back 3

Active, purposeful, organized, cognitive process used to carefully examine one’s thinking and the thinking of other individuals.

Front 4

Decision Making

Back 4

Process involving critical appraisal of information that results from recognizing a problem and ends with generating, testing, and evaluating a conclusion. Comes at the end of critical thinking.

Front 5

Diagnostic Reasoning

Back 5

Process that enables an observer to assign meaning to and classify phenomena in clinical situations by integrating observations and critical thinking.

Front 6

Evidence-based knowledge

Back 6

knowledge that is derived from the integration of bests research, clinical expertise, and patient values.

Front 7

Inference

Back 7

(1) judgement or interpretation of informational cues (2) taking one proposition as given and assuming another proposition follows.

Front 8

Nursing Process

Back 8

Systematic Problem solving method by which nurses individualize care for each patient. The five steps of the nursing process are assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, evaluation.

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Problem Solving

Back 9

Methodical, systematic approach to explore conditions and develop solutions including analysis of data, determination of causative factors, and selection of appropriate actions to reverse or eliminate the problem.

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Reflection

Back 10

Process of thinking back or recalling an event to discover the meaning and purpose of that event. Used in critical thinking.

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Scientific Method

Back 11

Codified sequence of steps used in the formulation, testing, evaluation, and reporting of scientific ideas.