Critical Thinking Or Thinking In Nursing

"How you think determines how you feel, which affects how you behave resulting in how you decide."
I want to think that positive thoughts bring positive things which at the end, I believe, will play an important part on how we feel, think or conduct ourselves. Therefore, if it is easy to understand that our state of mind will produce a specific behavior because emotions produce reactions. Also, it is important to be aware that normally these reactions can be observed or perceive by others not only by words but through our expressions of verbal and no verbal communication like a smile or head nodding. I believe the same concept applies to the feeling of sadness, confusion or emptiness among others which will take us to the other side of the card, the side that cannot be so easy to deal with or that at times we want to close our eyes to but that needs to …show more content…
Spend some time critically reflecting on what this means to you, especially in relation to your practice of nursing.
Thoroughly answer the following questions in an informal journal format. Think specifically about this specialty of mental health nursing rather than thinking about just a "new" clinical experience in …show more content…
Consequentially, this upcoming clinical rotation seems like a great opportunity to become more familiar about mental illness and hopefully be able to get a better understanding of what it is and how it affects people’s life which will aid me at the time of caring for patients. I look forward to gain a better understanding of how metal illness affect the life of so many people and hopefully learn how to aid and assist patients diagnosed and not diagnose of suffering from mental illness. I perceive it like opening a door to a new room so I can learn from it and hopefully get a hand of how mental illness affects many people