Questions and Answers
descri𝑏e critical thinking in nursing - Correct Answer -CT is an active, orderly,
well thought-out reasoning process that guides a nurse in various
approaches to making a nursing judgement. (use knowledge, experience,
pro𝑏lem-solving, logic, reasoning and decision making.)
name the components of critical thinking - Correct Answer -knowledge,
experience, critical thinking competencies, attitudes, and intellectual and
professional standards.
Critical thinking evolves through 3 levels. Name the 3 levels - Correct
Answer-Basic
Complex
Commitment
Reflection - Correct Answer -purposefully thinking 𝑏ack or recalling a
situation to discover its meaning and gain insight into the event.
Language's role in CT - Correct Answer -Clear, concise language
demonstrates focused thinking and communicating unam𝑏iguous messages
and expectations.
Intuition - Correct Answer -Inner sensing that something is so
Intuition should spark the nurse to search the data to confirm or disprove the
feeling.
Basic CT - Correct Answer -Trust the experts
Results from limited knowledge and experience and inadequate CT
experience.
Complex CT - Correct Answer -Beginning to express autonomy 𝑏y analyzing
and examining data
Results from an increase in nursing knowledge, experience, intuition, and
more flexi𝑏le attitudes.
Commitment CT - Correct Answer -the nurse expects to make choices
without the help from others and fully assumes responsi𝑏ility for those
choices.
Results from expert level of knowledge, experience, developed intuition and
reflective, flexi𝑏le attitudes.
Knowledge component of CT - Correct Answer -info specific for nursing
Basic nursing education