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Application of Critical Thinking to Patients

                                                 

 

In today's society, critical thinking is of great importance to the nursing profession to provide safe care and accurate priority in which situation to address first. Critical thinking objectives are being written and updated in schools of nursing and work place orientation periods (Kaddoura, 2010). I'd like to take an opportunity to pose a few scenario to my classmates to give feedback to me on which patient they feel need addressed first. Perceive you have just received report and are ready to assess four different patients. Of the following four which would you choose first and why?

1) 42 yo (female) admitted with pyelonephritis with a temp of 102 degrees.

2) 50 yo (male) on second day of admission with feeling of tingling in arm and b/p of 160/80.

3) 65 yo (female) fresh post op appendectomy with acute SOB and confusion

4) 30 yo (male) requesting his prn xanax for severe panic attack

Yes, these are rather different scenarios...anxious for feedback!

                                                                  Reference

Kaddoura, M. (2010). Effect of the Essentials of Critical Care Orientation (ECCO) program on the development of nurses' critical thinking skills. Journal Of Continuing Education In Nursing, 41(9), 424-432. doi:10.3928/00220124-20100503-05

Comment from Steve Jobs

Perhaps this comment from Steve Jobs will shed light on the importance of critical thinking in terms of loving our profession and critically choosing our teams! Enjoy this wisdom!

http://youtu.be/KuNQgln6TL0

Teaching our Students Critical Thinking

Critical thinking is one of many outcomes that most undergraduate programs have adopted as part of curriculum. Tools are in place to measure critical thinking skills upon exit of a nursing program usually in forms of questions in final comprehensive examinations. Critical thinking is a skill and without a nursing-oriented context for grounding this skill it is in and of itself meaningless. Faculty members must determine the end in the development of the context. Creative measure and criteria must be developed among seasoned nurses to pass this knowledge to the new generation of our profession (Billings & Halstead, 2009).

                                                                            Reference

Billings, D. M., & Halstead, J. A. (2009). Teaching in nursing; A guide for faculty (3rd ed.). St. Louis,

MO: Saunders Elsevier.

Introduction to Teaching Students Critical Thinking

I love this clip on teaching others, perhaps students on the tools and importance of critical thinking. I think this is an ideal introduction to this portion of my list of objectives. As always, I welcome feedback!

Teddie

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Teaching Each Other Critical Thinking Skills

As nurses, especially those of us who are seasoned at the profession realize the importance of critical thinking. it is certainly a responsibility of us to share this knowledge with others and even other disciplines of persons caring for our patients. For example, the persons who work in radiology such as the technicians are not always aware of or exhibit knowledge of critical thinking (Kowalczyk, 2011). It is noted that nurses are among the first of the health care team members to demonstrate examples of making critical decisions quickly in emergent and non-emergent scenarios. An example of teaching other department members would perhaps use a patient scenario in a grand round sitting. I have been using grand rounds in post conference with a nursing students and have them demonstrate their knowledge to me after I present them with a case scenario. This is just a simple idea and example of mine, even though I'm sure there are many more sophisticated methods of teaching this principle.

                                                                         

                                                                     Reference

Kowalczyk, N. (2011). Review of Teaching Methods and Critical Thinking Skills. Radiologic Technology, 83(2), 120-132.

Enjoy another viewpoint from various persons on critical thinking and making a difference....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dwhEXQrzs4&feature=related