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

A practicing nurse uses the Universal Intellectual Standards when providing care.Which standards do these include? (Select all that apply. )

The faculty member teaches nursing students that a nursing diagnosis (Select all that apply. )

The student nurse learning to write nursing care plans learns that evaluation

A new graduate nurse is working with an experienced nurse to chart assessment findings.The experienced nurse warns that charting assessment data can be difficult.The best explanation for this statement is that assessment data

A nurse assessing a patient knows that secondary sources of information include (Select all that apply. )

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 known as intellectual

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?

When the nurse is assessing a patient,the best action by the nurse is to

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 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

The nursing student knows that critical thinking is

An experienced nurse explains to a nursing student that validating,organizing,and categorizing data are critical thinking processes most correlated with the nursing process step of

A faculty member explains to a class of nursing students that the primary goal of critical thinking in clinical practice 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 student nurse asks how the nursing process is different from critical thinking.The best reply by the faculty member is that the nursing process is

A nurse has committed a serious medication error.The manager is a firm believer in developing critical thinking skills.From this standpoint,what action by the manager would best nurture this ability in the nurse who made the error?

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

A nurse is thought of as being difficult to work with because of the attitude that his answers are always correct (even in differing situations)and that no other options can work.The nurse manager should counsel this nurse on developing the critical thinking disposition of

A patient has been admitted for a complex operation that will require complicated home care,including dressing changes.The primary nurse should begin the process of teaching and discharge planning

A preceptor nurse is critiquing the student nurse's outcome statements on a patient's care plan.The preceptor tells the student the most well-written outcome statement is "The patient will