Exam 9: Think Like a Nurse: Essential Thinking Skills for Professional Nurses

A nurse has designed an individualized nursing care plan for a patient, but the patient is not meeting the goals.Further assessment reveals that the patient is not following through on many items.Which action by the nurse would be best for determining the cause of the problem?

A patient has not met goals on the care plan.The nurse assesses that the patient is in full agreement with the plan and has the motivation to carry it out.The diagnoses are supported by data, and the outcome statements are well written.The nurse concludes that:

The nursing student understands that being willing to listen and examine all ideas, even if they cause a negative reaction when considering them, describes the critical thinking characteristic is known as intellectual:

A new nurse is always asking questions, even when there does not seem to be a problem, much to the annoyance of some of the new nurse's co-workers.The nurse manager's best response to this situation is to:

A student is confused about the need to answer questions in a clinical journal about what happened during the day that could have been handled differently and what the possible outcomes might have been.The nursing instructor explains that this kind of questioning:

A unit has a continuous problem with a certain complication in a specific patient population.One nurse has read extensively about this issue and thinks the problem lies mainly in the unit's failure to follow one or two particular best practices because they use a standardized order set preferred by their physician group.Using the disposition of critical thinking known as analyticity, the best action for this nurse to take is to: