NMNC 3110 EXAM 2 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A+ 2025/2026
Critical Thinking - ANS the deliberate nonlinear process of collecting, interpreting, analyzing,
drawing conclusions about, presenting, and evaluating information that is both factually and
belief based. This is demonstrated in nursing by clinical judgment, which includes ethical,
diagnostic, and therapeutic dimensions and research
whats the order of thinking Skills - ANS -critical thinking
-clinical reasoning
-clinical judgment
-clinical decision making
Critical Thinking - ANS identifying, evaluating, and using evidence to guide decision making
by means of logic and reasoning
Clinical Reasoning - ANS the thinking process by which a nurse reaches a clinical judgment
or
a process of observing, interpreting, responding, and reflecting situated within and emerging
from the nurse's knowledge and perspective.
Clinical Decision-Making types - ANS -Analytic - requires the decision-maker to combine
patient cues to form a logical determination of intervention to address patient need
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, -Intuitive - based on experience and includes recognition of similarities between patient care
situations, awareness developed over time, and a process that may appear to be without
rationale
Clinical Judgment - ANS the observed outcome of critical thinking and decision-making
(NCSBN, 2015);
or
a conclusion nurses reach about a patient's needs or clinical problem; result of the clinical
reasoning process
Attributes of Clinical Judgment - ANS -Involves a holistic view of the patient situation
-Has a process orientation (a circular process)
-Requires reasoning and the interpretation of data
what is Reflective Practice - ANS -The ability to act on the basis of critical thinking comes with
experience.
-Turning over a subject in the mind and thinking about it seriously is reflection.
Tanner's Model - ANS -Noticing
-Interpreting
-Responding
-Reflecting
Noticing - ANS A function of the nurse's expectations and initial grasp of the situation; based
on knowledge
of the population of patients and relating the individual patient's situation.
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ANSWERS GRADED A+ 2025/2026
Critical Thinking - ANS the deliberate nonlinear process of collecting, interpreting, analyzing,
drawing conclusions about, presenting, and evaluating information that is both factually and
belief based. This is demonstrated in nursing by clinical judgment, which includes ethical,
diagnostic, and therapeutic dimensions and research
whats the order of thinking Skills - ANS -critical thinking
-clinical reasoning
-clinical judgment
-clinical decision making
Critical Thinking - ANS identifying, evaluating, and using evidence to guide decision making
by means of logic and reasoning
Clinical Reasoning - ANS the thinking process by which a nurse reaches a clinical judgment
or
a process of observing, interpreting, responding, and reflecting situated within and emerging
from the nurse's knowledge and perspective.
Clinical Decision-Making types - ANS -Analytic - requires the decision-maker to combine
patient cues to form a logical determination of intervention to address patient need
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, -Intuitive - based on experience and includes recognition of similarities between patient care
situations, awareness developed over time, and a process that may appear to be without
rationale
Clinical Judgment - ANS the observed outcome of critical thinking and decision-making
(NCSBN, 2015);
or
a conclusion nurses reach about a patient's needs or clinical problem; result of the clinical
reasoning process
Attributes of Clinical Judgment - ANS -Involves a holistic view of the patient situation
-Has a process orientation (a circular process)
-Requires reasoning and the interpretation of data
what is Reflective Practice - ANS -The ability to act on the basis of critical thinking comes with
experience.
-Turning over a subject in the mind and thinking about it seriously is reflection.
Tanner's Model - ANS -Noticing
-Interpreting
-Responding
-Reflecting
Noticing - ANS A function of the nurse's expectations and initial grasp of the situation; based
on knowledge
of the population of patients and relating the individual patient's situation.
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