CRITICAL THINKING CLINICAL
REASONING AND CLINICAL JUDGMENT
7TH EDITION EXAM SCRIPT 2026
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
◉ Give at least three reasons why critical thinking skills are essential for
students and nurses.. Answer: Nurses often use critical thinking to imply
thinking that's crucial must be done to manage specific problems;
developing workable solutions to complex problems, deliberating about
courses of action to take, or determining ways to improve consumer
satisfaction
◉ Identify at least four principles of the scientific method that are
evident in critical thinking.. Answer: observing, classifying data,
drawing conclusions, conducting experiments, testing hypotheses.
◉ Explain (or map) how the following terms are related to one another:
critical thinking, clinical reasoning, clinical judgment, decision-making,
problem-solving, and nursing process.. Answer: Critical thinking is the
broad term. Decision-making is an important part of critical thinking.
Clinical reasoning aka Nursing process, is how we arrive to an outcome,
or a clinical judgment.
◉ Compare and contrast the terms problem-focused thinking and
outcome-focused thinking.. Answer: They are similar, but outcome-
REASONING AND CLINICAL JUDGMENT
7TH EDITION EXAM SCRIPT 2026
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
◉ Give at least three reasons why critical thinking skills are essential for
students and nurses.. Answer: Nurses often use critical thinking to imply
thinking that's crucial must be done to manage specific problems;
developing workable solutions to complex problems, deliberating about
courses of action to take, or determining ways to improve consumer
satisfaction
◉ Identify at least four principles of the scientific method that are
evident in critical thinking.. Answer: observing, classifying data,
drawing conclusions, conducting experiments, testing hypotheses.
◉ Explain (or map) how the following terms are related to one another:
critical thinking, clinical reasoning, clinical judgment, decision-making,
problem-solving, and nursing process.. Answer: Critical thinking is the
broad term. Decision-making is an important part of critical thinking.
Clinical reasoning aka Nursing process, is how we arrive to an outcome,
or a clinical judgment.
◉ Compare and contrast the terms problem-focused thinking and
outcome-focused thinking.. Answer: They are similar, but outcome-
