nur 304 - Study guide FINAL EXAM - chapter 15 Questions and Correct Verified Answers
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Chapter 15: Critical thinking in nursing 2 questions
What is clinical decision making and how does it set the nurse apart from
assistive personnel?
How does questioning promote critical thinking?
What are the three levels of critical thinking?
Clinical decision making
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nur 304 - Study guide FINAL EXAM -
chapter 15 Questions and Correct
Verified Answers
Chapter 15: Critical thinking in nursing 2 questions
✓ What is clinical decision making and how does it set the nurse apart from
assistive personnel?
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✓ How does questioning promote critical thinking?
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✓ What are the three levels of critical thinking?
Clinical decision making
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✓ separates professional nurses from assistive personnel (AP)
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✓ For example, an RN:
✓ - observes for changes in patient's conditions
✓ - collects data about the changes
✓ - recognizes and identifies new and potential problems
✓ - plans nursing strategies
✓ - takes immediate action when a patient's clinical condition worsens
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✓ Nurses direct AP to perform basic aspects of care based on patient need
✓ - AP do not have the knowledge or critical thinking skills to analyze why or
when patients' clinical conditions change and what strategies are required
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✓ Good clinical decision making requires you to investigate and analyze all
aspects of a clinical problem and then apply scientific and nursing
knowledge to choose the best course of action
How does questioning promote critical thinking?
✓ Following a set of questions or criteria about the data helps a nurse make
thorough and thoughtful decisions
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✓ Socratic questioning is a technique for looking beneath the surface,
recognizing and examining assumptions, searching for inconsistencies,
examining multiple points of view, and differentiating what one knows from
what one merely believes
✓ is a conclusion about a patient's needs or health problems and/or the
decisions to take or avoid action, use or modify standard approaches, or
create new approaches based on the patient's response
components of critical thinking
✓ specific knowledge base
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✓ experience
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✓ competencies
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✓ attitudes
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✓ standards
Basic Critical Thinking
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