NR 110 (Latest 2023 / 2024) Unit 1
NEW Study Guide 100% Correct
Critical Thinking:
Knowing how to learn, be creative, generate ideas, make decisions, and solve problems.
Clinical Reasoning:
A complex cognitive process that uses formal and informal thinking strategies to gather and analyze patient information, evaluate the signifi- cance of this information, and weigh alternative actions.
Clinical Judgement:
an interpretation or conclusion about a patient's needs, concerns, or health problems, and/or the decision to take action (or not), use or modify standard approaches, or improvise new ones as deemed appropriate by the patient's response 1 / 2
Attitudes of critical thinking:
confidence, independence, fairness, responsibil- ity, discipline, perseverance, creativity, curiosity, integrity, humility
Tanner's Clinical Judgement Model:
- Noticing
- Interpreting
- Responding
- Reflecting (In-action & on-action)
Factors that influence clinical judgement:
- Critical thinking characteristics (attitudes/behaviors)
- Theoretical & experimental knowledge - Intellectual skills/competencies
- Interpersonal Skills/Competencies
- Technical Skills/Competencies
- / 2