Online Companion: Fundamentals of Nursing Standards and Practice 2E

Chapter Objectives

After reading Chapter 5, the student should be ready to
• Define critical thinking and its components
• List strategies that promote the development and use of critical thinking skills
• Describe how critical thinking and creative thinking are related
• List three blocks to critical thinking
• List three actions that interfere with effective problem-solving
• Describe the steps in the process that nurses use to solve nursing problems
• Describe the activities that nurses follow in each step of the nursing process: assessment, diagnosis, outcome identification and planning, implementation and evaluation.
• Identify the critical thinking questions that are used in each step of the nursing process