Critical thinking can best be defined as:
1. reasonable and reflective thinking that is rational, practical, self-aware, conducive to dialogue, and focused on what to do.
2. thinking that is systematic and logical and uses assessment, cue clustering, pattern recognition, hypothesis generation, and evaluation to make decisions.
3. thinking that is interpretive and abstract and focuses on the interlinking of problems with goals, plans, and interventions, as a patterned set, for the purpose of setting priorities of care.
4. thinking that is rational and logical and focuses on a clinical judgment about individual, family, or community responses to actual or potential health conditions, problems, or life processes.
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