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Fundamentals
Chapter 10
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Nursing
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02/07/2012

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What is Critical Thinking?
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Critical thinking is an intentional higher level reasoning process that is intellectually delineated by one's worldview, knowledge and experience with skills, attitudes and standards as a guide for rational judgment and action.
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Creativity is .....
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thinking that results in the development of new ideas and products.
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Creativity in problem solving and decision making is...
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the ability to develope and inplement new and better solutions for health care outcomes.
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Critical analysis is....
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the application of a set of questions to a particular situation or idea to determine essential information and ideas and discard superfluous information and ideas.
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Socratic questioning is...
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a technique one can use to look beneath the surface, recognize and examine mulitple points of view, and differentiate what one knows from what one merely believes.
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What is inductive reasoning?
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Inductive reseasoning is generalizations that are formed from a set of facts or observations.
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Deductive reasoning is what?
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Deductive reasoning is reasoning from the general premise to the specific conclusion.
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