Question

I would like to know the critical thinking portion of the questions

Answer 1

ANSWER : Before we jump into defining critical thinking skills, let’s run a quick experiment. We will try to find out if eating chocolate is good for health? If we serach it on intenet we get mixed answers that chocolates helps in concentration, and helps in overcome in tension and stress but it also rotten the teeth, it has high content of fat and sugar etc. So what we do now? Let's use some critical thinking and get answers of that question.

Critical thinking is the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action.

Critical thinking is the ability to think in an organized and rational manner in order to understand connections between ideas and/or facts. It helps you decide what to believe in. In other words, it’s “thinking about thinking”—identifying, analyzing, and then fixing flaws in the way we think.

Why it is important in nursing?

• Critical thinking skills are the cornerstone of self-development and improvement
• Critical thinking is a domain-general thinking skill.
• Critical thinking is very important in the new knowledge economy.
• Critical thinking enhances language and presentation skills
• Critical thinking promotes creativity
• It provides the opportunity to provide the best care to patient.

Steps of critical thinking:

• Identify the problem or question.
• Gather data, opinions, and arguments.
• Analyze and evaluate the data.
• Identify assumptions.
• Establish significance.
• Make a decision/reach a conclusion.
• Present or communicate.

Skills that need for a good critical thinker:

• Analysis
• Interpretation
• Inference.
• Evaluation
• Explanation
• Self-Regulation
• Open-Mindedness
• Problem-Solving

EXAMPLE OF CRITICAL THINKING QUESTIONS:

1. Nurse is seeing a patient is having difficulty in breathing and has laboured breathing.
2. A hypertensive patient has BP 100/70 mmhg, and it's a time to give next dose of antihypertensive drug. Then what will nurse do?
3. An unconsious patient is lying down on the floor. How will the nurse handle this situation?