NURSING 1F03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Nursing Process, Critical Thinking, Decision-Making
16 Dec 2017
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Develop sound critical thinking skills --> approach new problems involving patient care with open-mindedness, creativity, confidence and wisdom. Ability to think critically increases as you gain experience and process from novice to expert nurse. Allows to test and refine nursing approaches, learn from successes and failures, apply new knowledge and ensure holistic patient-centered care. Critical thinking: complex phenomenon that can be defined as a process and as a set of skills. Use of logic and reasoning to make accurate clinical judgements and decisions. Recognize the issues exist, analyze info about the issue, evaluate info, draw conclusions. Consider what is important in the situation, imagine and explore alternative solutions, consider ethical principles, and then make informed decisions about how to proceed. Requires purposeful and reflective reasoning during when you examine ideas, assumption and beliefs, principles, conclusions, and action within context of situation. Avoid letting your thinking become routine or standardized. Look beyond the obvious in any clinical situation.
