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Clinical Decision Making
Problem solving approach that nurses use to define patoent problems and select approproate treatment.
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Concept Map
Care-planning tool that assists in critical thinking and forming associations between a patients nursing diagnoses and intervention
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Critical Thinking
Active, purposeful, organized, cognitive process used to carefully examine one's thinking and the thinking of other individuals
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Decision Making
Proccedd involving critical appraisal of information that results from recognizing a problem and ends with generating, testing, and evaluating a conclusion. Comes at the end of critical thinking.
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Diagnostic Reasoning
Process that enables an observer to assign meaning to and to classify phenomena in clinical situation by integrating observations and critical thinking
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Evidence-based knowledge
Knowledge that is derived from the integration of best research, clinical expertise, and patient values
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Inference
(1) judgement or interpretation of informational cues.
(2) taking one proposition as a given and guessing that another propostion follows
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Nursing Process
Systematic problem-solving method by which nurses individualize care for each patient. The five steps of the nursing process are
- A-assessment
- D- nursing diagnosis
- P- plannign
- I- implementation
- E- evalutation
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Problem-Solving
Methodical, systematic approach to explore conditions and develop solutions, including analysis of data, determination of causative factors, and selection of appropriate actions to reverse or eliminate the problem.
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Reflection
Process of thinking back or recalling an event to discover the meaning and purpose pf that event. useful in critical thinking
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Scientific Method
codified sequence of steps used in formulation, testing, evalution, and reporting of scientific ideas.
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