Nursing 1160A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Critical Thinking, Validity, Jargon
28 Feb 2016
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Critical thinking is a desire to seek, patience to doubt, fondness to meditate, slowness to assert, readiness to consider, carefulness to dispose and set in order; and hatred for every kind of imposture. The action of using one"s mind to produce thoughts. Egocentric, biased, distorted, may be uninformed, superficial. Quality of thinking impacts things we produce in lifetime: adapt certain models that develop over time in mind to think and thus come to conclusions/inferences about what we"re seeing or experiencing. Comes from past experiences create meanings for the future: many inferences are justified and reasonable however some may not be. This is why critical thinking is essential. People can go through life without examining their thinking. Nursing practice important to develop critical thinking: occurs in automatic, uncritical manner, not negative, a way of inquiry, must move beyond unexamined thinking, takes discipline and work. The art of analyzing and evaluating thinking with a view to improving it.
