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    This document discusses the importance of critical thinking in nursing. It defines critical thinking as an active, organized cognitive process used to carefully examine one's own thinking and the thinking of others. Critical thinking is important for nurses as they must make decisions, deal with change, and apply knowledge from different fields. The document identifies characteristics of critical thinking like being reasonable, reflective, and autonomous. It also discusses skills, factors affecting thinking, and ways to develop critical thinking through reflective journaling and concept mapping.

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    This document discusses the importance of critical thinking in nursing. It defines critical thinking as an active, organized cognitive process used to carefully examine one's own thinking and the thinking of others. Critical thinking is important for nurses as they must make decisions, deal with change, and apply knowledge from different fields. The document identifies characteristics of critical thinking like being reasonable, reflective, and autonomous. It also discusses skills, factors affecting thinking, and ways to develop critical thinking through reflective journaling and concept mapping.

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    This document discusses the importance of critical thinking in nursing. It defines critical thinking as an active, organized cognitive process used to carefully examine one's own thinking and the thinking of others. Critical thinking is important for nurses as they must make decisions, deal with change, and apply knowledge from different fields. The document identifies characteristics of critical thinking like being reasonable, reflective, and autonomous. It also discusses skills, factors affecting thinking, and ways to develop critical thinking through reflective journaling and concept mapping.

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    This document discusses the importance of critical thinking in nursing. It defines critical thinking as an active, organized cognitive process used to carefully examine one's own thinking and the thinking of others. Critical thinking is important for nurses as they must make decisions, deal with change, and apply knowledge from different fields. The document identifies characteristics of critical thinking like being reasonable, reflective, and autonomous. It also discusses skills, factors affecting thinking, and ways to develop critical thinking through reflective journaling and concept mapping.

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    The key takeaways are that critical thinking is an important skill for nurses, which involves actively and carefully examining ideas and making rational decisions. It allows nurses to effectively solve problems, deal with change, and make important decisions in their work.

    Critical thinking is an active, organized cognitive process used to carefully examine one's own thinking and the thinking of others. It is important in nursing because nurses must use knowledge from various fields, deal with change and stressful environments, and make important patient care decisions on a daily basis.

    Characteristics of critical thinking include being reasonable, rational, reflective, autonomous thinking, fair thinking, and focusing on deciding what to believe or do. Critical thinkers also demonstrate traits like humility, courage, integrity, perseverance, empathy, and fair-mindedness.

    CRITICAL THINKING

    PREPARED BY
    MS. ROZINA AMIR ALI
    SENIOR NURSING INSTRUCTOR
    SBSON
    Objectives
    • Explain the importance of critical thinking in nursing.
    • Discuss definitions of, characteristics of, and skills used in critical
    thinking.
    • Identify the three major factors that affect thinking.
    • Explore ways to enhance and develop critical thinking skills especially
    as applied to nursing.
    • Set personal goals for developing critical thinking skills.
    Critical thinking:
    Definition:
    • Critical thinking is a purposeful mental activity in which ideas are
    produced and evaluated, plan made, and desired conclusion
    determined.
    • A process and a set of skills
    • Active organized ,cognitive process used to carefully examine one’s
    thinking and the thinking of others
    Importance of Critical Thinking
    • Nurses use knowledge from other subjects and fields
    • Nurses deals with change in stressful environment
    • Nurses make important decisions
    In nursing critical thinking begins by asking these
    questions:
    • What do I really know about this nursing care situation?
    • How do I know it?
    • What are options available to me?

    Nursing Process
    • A language you will speak
    • A way you will think
    • A beginning to using critical thinking in nursing
    • You currently use critical thinking every day
    Characteristics of Critical thinking

    • Is reasonable and rational


    • Is reflective
    • Inspires an attitude of enquiry
    • Is autonomous(independent) thinking
    • Is fair thinking
    • Focuses on deciding what to believe or do
    Critical Thinking Skills
    • Thinking independently
    • Humility(humbleness)
    • Courage
    • Integrity(honesty)
    • Perseverance(determination)
    • Empathy
    • Fair mindedness
    • Exploring thoughts and feeling
    • Cognitive skills
    Factors that Affect critical thinking
    • Problem solving
    • Trial and error
    • Intuition(Insight)
    • Nursing Process
    • Scientific method/ research process
    • Research question
    • Purpose
    • Literature review
    • Hypothesis
    • Method
    • Sample and setting
    • Pilot study
    • Collection the data
    • Analyze the date
    • Communicate conclusion
    Decision Making
    Developing critical thinking skills

    • Learn how to connect knowledge and theory with practice


    • Reflective journaling and concept maps are two approaches for
    developing critical thinking.
    Reflective journaling
    • Record your whole clinical experience in your own words in a personal journal.
    • Sewell (2008) recommends that you answer the following questions in a journal
    entry:
     Did I respond appropriately? How should I have responded?
    Were there consequences of my actions. What were they and whom did they
    affect?
    Why did I reach like that? what was I thinking at that moment?
    Should I have reacted differently?
    What was I trying to achieve?
    Was I working from just instinct or evidence –base practice?
    How did I feel about experience?
    When it ended, did I feel differently?
    Concept Mapping
    • A visual representation of patients problems and interventions that shows
    their relationship to one another

    Primary purpose of concept maping


    • Synthesize relevant data about a patient, including assessment, and
    evaluation measures.
    • Strategy for developing reflective thinking skills.
    • Learn to organize or link information about a patient in a unique and
    meaningful way.
    • Learn how a patient’s multiple problems are interrelated and often a
    single nursing intervention is effective for more than one problem.

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