Question

How is the ability to understand and implement truth-functional logic important for a person working in healthcare? Describe one or more specific possible scenarios for this in your chosen field. Correctly use three or more specific terms from the chapter as part of your response.

Answer 1

*Truth functional knowledge is important in nursing and in nursing use the term critical thinking to explain this type of knowledge.it helps the health care professionals to

                             * Act appropriately to various situvations in the clinical settings and decision making

                               in emergency situvations.

                             * It is a good method for improve quality of care for the patient.

                             * Application of true functional knowledge help to avoid chances of errors in health

                               care.

                           *Nurses critical thinking ability help their career development and enhance perfomance

                            in clinical areas.

                          * Critical thinking useful in clinical research and health surveys.

Examples

               1, When i worked in medical ward one of my patient who take treatment for tuberculosis

                   complaint about orange colour of his urine and he feared about something wrong is

                   happened. So i explained him it is because of use of rifampicin and urine become normal

                  colour after treatment.

               2, During my posting in oncology department one of my assigned patient who received G-CSF

                  ( Granulocyte colony stimulating factor) complaint that she feel pain on joints and

                 she think that treatment is ineffective.I explained her that it is not because of ineffective

                     treatment this injection will cause expansion of narrowed bone marrow through bloodcell

                     production result in pain.