Critical Thinking in Nursing. Definition Critical thinking is an active, organized, cognitive...
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Critical Thinking in Nursing
Definition
Critical thinking is an active, organized, cognitive process used to carefully examine one’s thinking and the thinking of others.
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
Aspects of Critical Thinking
To develop into an expert critical thinker the nurse needs to use: Reflection
Language
Intuition
Levels of Critical Thinking
Basic Critical Thinking
Complex Critical Thinking
Commitment
Critical Thinking Competencies
General critical thinking competencies used by many disciplines, in many everyday situations.
Scientific method Problem solving Decision making
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
Critical Thinking Competencies
Specific critical thinking competency used in nursing practice
Nursing Process Assessment Analysis (Nursing Diagnosis) Planning Implementation Evaluation
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
Critical Thinking Attitudes
Confidence Thinking independently Fairness Responsibility and accountability Risk taking Discipline
Critical Thinking Attitudes
Perserverance Creativity Curosity Integrity Humility
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
Standards Professional standards
Sound ethical standards When critically thinking must have a sense of their
own values, beliefs, feelings and their clients/ client’s family’s 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