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