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Chpt 10. Critical Thinking and the Nursing Process
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Nursing
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01/11/2010

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Creativity
Definition
thinking that results in the development of new ideas and products
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Critical Analysis
Definition
a set of questions one can apply to a particular situation or idea to determine essential information and ideas and discard superfluous information and ideas
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Critical Thinking
Definition
a cognitive process that includes creativity, problem solving, and decision making
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Decision Making
Definition
the process of establishing criteria by which alternative courses of action are developed and selected
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Deductive Reasoning
Definition
making specific observations from a generalization
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Inductive Reasoning
Definition
making generalizations from specific data
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Intuition
Definition
the understanding or learning of things without the conscious use of reasoning
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Nursing Process
Definition
a systematic rational method of planning and providing nursing care
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Problem Solving
Definition
obtaining information that clarifies the nature of the problem and suggests possible solutions
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Socratic Questioning
Definition
a technique one can use to look beneath the surface, recognize and examine assumptions, search for inconsistencies, examine multiple points of view, and differentiate what one knows from what one merely believes
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