Nurses- are there steps you miss in the critical thinking process that could further your patient care?

Critical Thinking in the Nursing Process presents beginning level concepts of critical thinking and their relationship to the nursing process. Delineates what critical thinking is and what it is not. Demonstrates the process of the critical examination of data and cues to health issues and patient-care problems that affect clinical judgment. Illustrates the thinking process employed to arrive at sound and valid patient-care decisions.

Objectives:

After viewing the program, the learner will be able to:

• Define critical thinking as an organized way of thinking
• Regarding patient responses
• Regarding nursing actions
• Indentiy and briefly describe selected elements of critical thinking
• Reasoning
• Intuition
• Creativity
• Variables
• Questioning
• Application of experience
• Validation
• Explain how critical thinking is essential in the nursing process

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