Chapter 7

Is a process and a set of skills.

Is a part of critical thinking that involves the process of purposefully thinking back and recalling a situation to discover its purpose or meaning.

Is the inner sensing or "gut feeling" that something is so.

Solve problems using reasoning.

• Basic
• Complex
• Commitment

Thinking is concrete and based on a set of rules or principles.

They analyze and examine choices more indepentently.

A person anticpates the need to make choices without assistance from others.

• Specific knowlegde base:
• Experience
• Competence
• Attitudes
• Standards

• Scientific method
• Problem solving
• Decision making

• Clinical inference
• Diagnostic reasoning
• Clincal decision making

Is a critical thinking skill in which you make tentative conclusions based on observed data or cues exisiting in patient situations.

requires careful reasoning so that you choose the options for the best patient outcomes on the basis of the patients condition and priority of the problem.

Assist in steing clinical priorities.

Is to diagnose and treat human responses to actual or potential health problems.

Is a process of using the data you gather, forming inferences and then logically explaining a clinical judgement.