Critical thinking is an important skill for nurses to have in order to make thoughtful decisions about patient care. It allows nurses to collect and analyze data to identify the best treatment options for patients. The critical thinking model outlines skills like persistence, leadership, and technology that nurses can develop to align learning with practice. As advocates for patients, nurses must think objectively and use critical reasoning to understand patient challenges and create innovative solutions to improve care.
Critical thinking is an important skill for nurses to have in order to make thoughtful decisions about patient care. It allows nurses to collect and analyze data to identify the best treatment options for patients. The critical thinking model outlines skills like persistence, leadership, and technology that nurses can develop to align learning with practice. As advocates for patients, nurses must think objectively and use critical reasoning to understand patient challenges and create innovative solutions to improve care.
Critical thinking is an important skill for nurses to have in order to make thoughtful decisions about patient care. It allows nurses to collect and analyze data to identify the best treatment options for patients. The critical thinking model outlines skills like persistence, leadership, and technology that nurses can develop to align learning with practice. As advocates for patients, nurses must think objectively and use critical reasoning to understand patient challenges and create innovative solutions to improve care.
Critical thinking is an important skill for nurses to have in order to make thoughtful decisions about patient care. It allows nurses to collect and analyze data to identify the best treatment options for patients. The critical thinking model outlines skills like persistence, leadership, and technology that nurses can develop to align learning with practice. As advocates for patients, nurses must think objectively and use critical reasoning to understand patient challenges and create innovative solutions to improve care.
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Describe critical thinking in nursing in your own words applying your insights with the
course concepts
Critical reasoning help nurses understand the challenges facing patients and make thoughtful,
smart decisions on how to execute treatment plans for those patients. It allows them to solve
challenges by collecting data and analyzing solutions before selecting the right course of action
(Hawkins et al., 2019).
The Critical Thinking Model offers a visual description of critical thinking skills that can be used
by nurses to align nursing learning with nursing practice. Nurses are obliged to:
Build their vital characteristics of thought, such as imagination, persistence and trust.
To develop their analytical abilities and competences, search out learning opportunities
and experiential awareness
Build their leadership skills and competencies such as teamwork, dispute resolution,
embracing and learning from constructive criticism.
Train your technological abilities until they are second nature.
Nurses are expected to think objectively in new fields such as economics, budgeting, staffing,
strategic planning, and assurance of efficiency. Nurse administrators should not strategically
make day-to-day decisions without clear thought capacity, with a view to advancing the
organization's objectives.
Lastly, nurses can become transformational leaders through critical thinking abilities. In
hospitals and other areas where they operate, they will test theories, gain a more robust view of
the root causes of challenges, and create more innovative solutions to daily problems. Simply
put, nurses can fall back on reactive, automated responses to issues without these skills and miss the multitude of opportunities to make visionary and goal-driven improvements. Critical thought
and reasoning help nurses understand the challenges facing patients and make thoughtful, smart
decisions on how to execute treatment plans for those patients. It allows them to solve challenges
by collecting data and analyzing solutions before selecting the right course of action (Hawkins et
al., 2019).
Reflect and analyze a personal nursing experience and indicate how to improve their
clinical reasoning in the clinical situation (e.g how you made a decision and what you would
do differently the next time you are in similar situation) and apply clinical judgement.
Personal nursing experience was that as a triage nurse I my responsibility was to assess patients
and identify the type of care they required in the emergency room. I was assessing patients to
identify the order by which the patients would be treated. I did not use critical thinking when
making a decision about the order by which the patients would get treatment because some
patients required emergency medical attention more compared to others and the decision I made
had adverse outcome. It was because patients who needed emergency medical attention did not
get the treatment on time and this resulted to poor patient outcome. Next time when am in a
similar situation I would use critical thinking and critical judgement by effectively analyzing the
leve of needs of different patients and decide on a better order by which the patients would get
treatment. I would do this by prioritizing the patients who were in a much bad situation for them
to get treatment first to improve their outcome.
Summarize your thoughts regard the safe provision of patient care regarding the practice
change demonstrating growth in understanding of clinical reasoning.
Critical thinking skills are an important aspect in the nursing practice and all nurses should
ensure that they use critical reasoning during their day-to-day practice and when caring for
patients (Royce et al., 2019). Safe patient care is paramount as all nurse should ensure that they
provide safe care to their patients to improve patient outcomes. In healthcare setting, use of
critical reasoning has led to improved patient outcomes as nurses use critical thinking to offer the
patients the best and safest available care. For example, if a patient present with emergency
medical attention, nurses are able to make quick decisions by using critical reasoning and
provide safe care to the patient. When nurses use critical reasoning, they are able to reduce
diagnostic errors when caring for patients which improves their outcome because patients receive
safe care (Royce et al., 2019).
References
Hawkins, D., Elder, L., & Paul, R. (2019). The Thinker's Guide to Clinical Reasoning: Based on
Critical Thinking Concepts and Tools. Rowman & Littlefield.
Royce, C. S., Hayes, M. M., & Schwartzstein, R. M. (2019). Teaching Critical Thinking.
