NURS103 Study Guide - Final Guide: Knowledge Base, Professional Responsibility, Problem Solving
25 Aug 2016
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Test and refine nursing approaches, learn from successes and failures, apply new knowledge, and ensure holistic patient-centered care. Complex phenomenon that is a process and a set of skills. Use of logic and reasoning to make accurate clinical judgments and decisions. Recognize that an issue exists, analyze info, evaluate info, and draw conclusions. Examine ideas, assumptions, beliefs, principles, conclusions, and actions w/in the context of the situation. Look beyond the obvious in any clinical situation, explore patient"s unique responses, and recognize what actions are needed. Evidence-informed knowledge= based on research or clinical expertise. Clinical decision-making process= apply all skills and acquiring all of these critical thinking habits take time and practice. Consider all aspects of a situation and male-well reasoned judgments about possible alternative actions. Habits: truth seeking, open mindedness, analyticity, systematically, self-confidence, inquisitives, maturity. Basic= trusts that experts have the right answers for every problem (concrete and based on rules or principles)
