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Critical Thinking
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Biology
Undergraduate 1
03/31/2009

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Knowledge base
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A nurse’s knowledge base is drawn from nursing school education as well as from knowledge obtained from basic sciences, humanities, and behavioral sciences.

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Experience
Definition
Obtained from clinical situations, actually working with patients and their families
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The Nursing Process and Critical Thinking
Definition
Critical thinking and the nursing process are inseparable. As a new nurse, you will rely on the nursing process to guide your practice.
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Standards
Definition

Finally, there are two standards to consider when thinking critically: intellectual and professional. An intellectual standard is a guideline or principle for rationale thought. Professional standards refer to ethical criteria for nursing judgments, evidence-based criteria used for evaluation, and criteria for professional responsibility.

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Scientific Method
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an approach to seeking the truth or verifying that a set of facts agrees with reality. Nurse researchers use blank when testing a research questions in nursing practice situations.
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·        Problem Solving

Definition
invlovles evaluating the solution over time to be sure that it is still effective
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·     Clinical   Decision Making

Definition
when a nurse approaces a clinical problem, the nurse collaborates with the client to make a decision that identifies the problem and then choses those nursing interventions that will meet the mutally established goals of care
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·        Decision making

Definition
a person faces a problem or situation and must choose a course of action from serveral potions, the person is engaged in blank
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·        Diagnostic Reasoning and Inference

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nurse receiveds information about a client in a particular clinical sutiation, blank begins. it is a process of determing a client's health status after the nurse assigns meaning to the behaviors, physical signs and symptoms presented by the clietn.
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·        Nursing Process as a Competency

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consistes of five steps, assessment, diagnosis planning implemmentation and evaluation
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Knowledge base
Definition

A nurse’s knowledge base is drawn from nursing school education as well as from knowledge obtained from basic sciences, humanities, and behavioral sciences.

Term
Experience
Definition
Obtained from clinical situations, actually working with patients and their families
Term
The Nursing Process and Critical Thinking
Definition

- Critical thinking and the nursing process are inseparable. As a new nurse, you will rely on the nursing process to guide your practice.

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Standards
Definition
- Finally, there are two standards to consider when thinking critically: intellectual and professional. An intellectual standard is a guideline or principle for rationale thought. Professional standards refer to ethical criteria for nursing judgments, evidence-based criteria used for evaluation, and criteria for professional responsibility.
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