Nursing 1160A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Critical Thinking, Decision-Making, Problem Solving
7 Jun 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. Definition: the action of using one"s mind to produce thoughts. Quality what we think can impact many things. People can go throughout life without examining thinking. Need to move beyond common unexamined thinking to critical thinking. The art of analyzing & evaluating thinking with a view to improving it. (foundation for critical thinking, 2008) How we respond to what we see and experience is informed by our past. Skills of noticing and reconstructing the inferences/meaning of what is happening. Requires us to pay attention to things around us. Distinguish raw data of our experience with the interpretations that there are about the data. Need to recognize different points of view. Understand how your point of view guides the decisions you make.
