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Title: Critical Thinking in Nursing


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Critical Thinking in Nursing
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Definition
  • Critical thinking is an active, organized,
    cognitive process used to carefully examine ones
    thinking and the thinking of others.

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Why do we need to think critically?
  • Need to make accurate and appropriate clinical
    decisions
  • Need to solve problems and find solutions
  • Need to plan care for each unique client and
    client problem
  • Need to seek knowledge and use it to make
    clinical decisions and problem solve
  • Need to be able to think creatively when planning
    care for clients

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Aspects of Critical Thinking
  • To develop into an expert critical thinker the
    nurse needs to use
  • Reflection
  • Language
  • Intuition

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Levels of Critical Thinking
  • Basic Critical Thinking
  • Complex Critical Thinking
  • Commitment

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Critical Thinking Competencies
  • General critical thinking competencies used by
    many disciplines, in many everyday situations.
  • Scientific method
  • Problem solving
  • Decision making

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Critical Thinking Competencies
  • Specific critical thinking in clinical situations
    used by physicians, nurses, and other health care
    professionals.
  • Diagnostic reasoning/ Clinical inference
  • Clinical decision making

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Critical Thinking Competencies
  • Specific critical thinking competency used in
    nursing practice
  • Nursing Process
  • Assessment
  • Analysis (Nursing Diagnosis)
  • Planning
  • Implementation
  • Evaluation

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Critical Thinking Model
  • The model helps to explain how nurses make
    clinical judgments/ decisions in their clinical
    practice that result in safe, effective, nursing
    care. There are 5 components in this model of
    critical thinking
  • Knowledge base
  • Experience in nursing
  • Critical thinking competencies
  • Attitudes for critical thinking
  • Standards for critical thinking

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Critical Thinking Attitudes
  • Confidence
  • Thinking independently
  • Fairness
  • Responsibility and accountability
  • Risk taking
  • Discipline

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Critical Thinking Attitudes
  • Perserverance
  • Creativity
  • Curosity
  • Integrity
  • Humility

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Standards
  • Intellectual Standards-
  • 14 intellectual standards (Paul,1993) Nurses use
    these when using the nursing process
  • 1. Confidence 7. Perseverance
  • 2. Independence 8. Creativity
  • 3. Fairness 9. Curiosity
  • 4. Responsibility 10. Integrity
  • 5. Risk taking 11. Humility
  • 6. Discipline

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Standards
  • Professional standards
  • Sound ethical standards
  • When critically thinking must have a sense of
    their own values, beliefs, feelings and their
    clients/ clients familys values, beliefs,
    feelings
  • Scientifically based practice with standards
    developed by experts
  • Evidenced based practice
  • Standards developed as a result of evidence
  • These are minimum requirements that are necessary
    to give quality effective care

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