Nursing 2400 Final (Part 1) Study Set- Practice Questions with Answers

critical thinking continuous process characterized by open-mindedness, continued inquiry, and perseverance; combined with a willingness to look at unique patient situation and determine which identified assumptions are true and relevant recognizing that an issue exists, analyzing information, and making conclusions interpretation, analysis, inference, evaluation, explantation, self-regulation clinical decisions separate professional nurses from technical and ancillary staff need to seek knowledge, and act quickly thinking and learning lifelong process intellectual and emotional growth involves learning new knowledge, as well as refining the ability to think, solve problems, and make judgments nursing continues to grow, nurses need to be flexible concepts of a critical thinker truth seeking, open mindedness, analytic approach, systematic approach, self confidence, inquisitiveness, maturity 5 components of critical thinking knowledge base experience nursing process competencies attitudes standards nursing process clinical decision making approach adpie attitudes a nurse needs confidence, independence, fairness, responsibility, risk taking, discipline, perseverance, creativity, curiosity, integrity, humility reflective journaling a tool used to clarify concepts through reflection by thinking back or recalling situations circle of meaning model concept mapping a visual representation of patient problems and interventions that illustrates an interrelationship caring for groups of patients identify nursing diagnoses and collaborative problems decide on urgency consider amount of care time