Question

Many nurses often tend to focus primarily on their routines, such as getting their list of tasks done, such as assessments, ordered treatments, daily care, and charting. Analyze what you would do if an unexpected situation occurred during the day. Do you think you would be able to reason, plan, and take appropriate action—think critically? Discuss how you developed your critical thinking skills or how these skills need to be improved.

Answer 1

Ans) Everything about health care is complex. There are complex care processes, complex health care technologies, complex patient needs and responses to therapeutic interventions, and complex organizations.

- There are tremendous opportunities and challenges in improving the quality and safety of health care, but the majority require purposeful redesign of health care organizations and processes.

- Organizations that are committed to high-quality and safe care will not place nurses at the “sharp end” of care, but will focus on system improvements.

- Recognizing the complexity of care and how several factors combine at a specific time and result in errors and adverse events, organizations, leaders, and clinicians will dedicate themselves to using data and evidence and to continuously improve the quality and safety of care, even when there are complex challenges.

- Critical thinking is the analysis of facts to form a judgment. The subject is complex, and several different definitions exist, which generally include the rational, skeptical, unbiased analysis, or evaluation of factual evidence.

- Simply put, critical thinking in nursing is a purposeful, logical process which results in powerful patient outcomes. The critical thinking nurse has an open mind and draws heavily upon evidence-based research and past clinical experiences to solve patient problems.