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Basic Nursing
Critical Thinking and Nursing Judgment
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Health Care
Undergraduate 2
09/18/2008

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Define critical thinking
Definition
The active, organized, cognitive process used to carefully examine one's thinking and the thinking of others.
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What is critical thinking
Definition
Both a process and a set of skills
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Being a good critical thinker means
Definition
Being open to new ideas and able to focus on the circumstances surrounding a situation.
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Clinical decision making
Definition
skill that separates professional nurses from unlicensed technical staff.
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Clinical decisions involve part 1
Definition
observe patient, search for and examine ideas, make inferences (draw conclusions)
part 1
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Clinical decisions involve Part 2
Definition
Then consider scientific principals
recognize the problems,
develop and approach to nursing care
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Definition
Knowledge based on research or clinical expertise
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Define reflection
Definition
Process of thinking back or recalling an even or discovering the meaning and purpose of that event
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Receptive aphasia
Definition
Language is not understood
Abnormal neurological condition in which the language function is defective due to an injury in certain areas of the cerebral cortex.
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aphasia
Definition
Neuro disorder influencing the production (expressive)and understanding (receptive)of language
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Intuition
Definition
Immediate apprehension that something is so, without benefit of conscious reasoning
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Learning
Definition
Acquisition of new knowledge and skills as a result of reinforcement, practice, and experience
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