Question

Critical thinking /homework

5.The nursing process organizes your approach while delivering nursing care. To provide the best professional care to clients, nurses need to incorporate nursing process and which of the following?

6.You are caring for a patient with an indwelling Foley catheter. You notice that there is no urine draining into the bag. You check the tubing and find it is kinked. This action is an example of which of the following?

7. The nurse has a patient with a peripheral IV infusion. Last week the nurse cared for a patient whose IV site developed the complication of phlebitis. The nurse is more prepared to observe for developing problems with this newly assigned patient because of:

8. Critical thinking is best described as

9.Which of the following nursing actions is the best example of problem solving?

10.Redesigning care delivery and nursing   curricula is useless if nurses don’t   have   the thinking skills required to deal with today’s world is a reason to improve thinking skills

Answer 1

5. The nursing process organizes your approach while delivering nursing care. To provide the best professional care to clients, nurses need to incorporate the nursing process and which of the following?

Solution:

Critical thinking and intellectual standards are important in the Nursing process for proper assessment and diagnosing of patient condition. Critical thinking makes the nurse write diagnosis related to patient care. Critical thinking helps the nurse to implement nursing interventions and to provide patient-centered care. Critical thinking of nurse evaluates the outcomes of nursing care.

6. You are caring for a patient with an indwelling Foley catheter. You notice that there is no urine draining into the bag. You check the tubing and find it is kinked. This action is an example of which of the following?

Solution:

This action is the best example of inadequate knowledge and skills of the nurse. After inserting an indwelling catheter, the nurse should place a urinary catheter to avoid kinking, reflux in the urine drain.

7. The nurse has a patient with a peripheral IV infusion. Last week the nurse cared for a patient whose IV site developed the complication of phlebitis. The nurse is more prepared to observe for developing problems with this newly assigned patient because of:

Solution:

Experience makes the nurse pre-assumption of complications of any procedures and to take appropriate measures to prevent secondary complications. Nurses prepared themselves for the outcoming of any complication and to take initiatives to treat them.

8. Critical Thinking is the proper analysis and evaluation of a clinical problem or issue in order to make a good clinical decision.

9. Example of problem-solving:

The client feels difficult to breathe in a supine position. The nursing action of making the client sit in fowler's position makes the client breathe easily as the lungs expand in this position. This is an example of problem-solving.

10. Critical thinking is important in the nursing field. For good critical thinking skills, nursing theories, ideas, and concepts play an important role. The nursing curriculum should be established in order to develop nursing knowledge and skill whereby critical thinking skills develop.