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Chapter 11 Vocab
Blended Skills and Critical Thinking Throughout the Nursing Process
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Nursing
Undergraduate 2
09/25/2012

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Assess
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Step 1. Asses the patient to determine the need for nursing care.
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Concept Mapping
Definition
Is an intructional strategy that requires learners to identify, graphically display, and link key concepts. 
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Critical Thinking
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Is defined as a "systematic way to form and shape one's thinking. It functions purposfully and exactingly. 
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Critical Thinking Indicators
Definition
That is , evidence based descriptions of behaviors that demonstrate the knowledge, characteristics, and skills that promote critical thinking in clinical practice. 
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Decision Making
Definition
as "purposeful, goal directed effort applied in a systematic way to make a choice among alternatives," and they explain that even choosing not to act in a certain situation is a decision. 
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Evaluate
Definition
Evaluate the resutls to see if your plan of care was successful at achieving patient goals.
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Expected Outcomes
Definition
ties in with the plan or your holitic plan of individualized care tha specifies the desired patient goals and related outcomes and the nursing interventions most likely to assist the patient to meet those expected outcomes. 
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Implement
Definition
Execute the plan of care.
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Intuitive Problem Solving
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Is thus a direct understanding of a situation based on a background of experience, knowledge, and skill that makes expert decision making possible. 
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Nursing Diagnoses
Definition
For actual and potential health problems. Use your NANDA 
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Nursing Process
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Is a systematic methiod that durects the nurse and the patient, as together they accomplish the following:

ADOPIE

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Plan 
Definition
ties in with expected outcomes
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Scientific Problem Solving 
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Is a systematic, seven-step, problem-solving process that involves:

  1. Problem Identification
  2. Data collection
  3. Hypothesis Formulation
  4. Plan of Action 
  5. Hypothesis testing
  6. Interpretation of results
  7. Evaluation, resulting in conclusion or revision of the study. 
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Standards for Critical Thinking 
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Clear, precise, specific, accurate, relevant, plausible, consistent, logival, deep, broad, completem significant, adequate (for purpose), and fair. 
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Trial-and- Error

Problem Solving

Definition
Involoves testing any number of solutions until ine is found that works for that particular problem. This method is not efficient for the nurse and can be dangerous to the patient. 
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