Describe critical thinking in nursing ✔✔ CT is an active, orderly, well thought-out

reasoning process that guides a nurse in various approaches to making a nursing

judgement. (use knowledge, experience, problem-solving, logic, reasoning and decision

making.)

Name the components of critical thinking ✔✔ knowledge, experience, critical thinking

competencies, attitudes, and intellectual and professional standards.

Critical thinking evolves through 3 levels. Name the 3 levels ✔✔ Basic

Complex

Commitment

Reflection ✔✔ purposefully thinking back or recalling a situation to discover its meaning

and gain insight into the event.

Language's role in CT ✔✔ Clear, concise language demonstrates focused thinking and

communicating unambiguous messages and expectations.

Intuition ✔✔ Inner sensing that something is so

Intuition should spark the nurse to search the data to confirm or disprove the feeling.

Basic CT ✔✔ Trust the experts

Results from limited knowledge and experience and inadequate CT experience.

Complex CT ✔✔ Beginning to express autonomy by analyzing and examining data

Results from an increase in nursing knowledge, experience, intuition, and more flexible

attitudes.

Commitment CT ✔✔ the nurse expects to make choices without the help from others

and fully assumes responsibility for those choices.

Results from expert level of knowledge, experience, developed intuition and reflective,

flexible attitudes.

Knowledge component of CT ✔✔ info specific for nursing

Basic nursing education

Continuing Education

Advanced degrees and certifications

Experience component of CT ✔✔ Decision-making ability derived from opportunities to

observe, sense, and interact with clients followed by active reflection.

Understand clinical situations