A client is considering several changes in personal habits to improve his health. Which of the following critical thinking strategies can the nurse use to help this client?
1. Ask the client to identify his goals to improve his health.
2. Remind the client that the physician has to approve all changes in his health improvement plan.
3. Suggest the client wait until he is discharged before planning to make personal habit changes.
4. Recommend that immediate changes are made to confuse the body's responses.
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Critical thinking is a self-directed, deliberate, self-corrected, results-oriented reasoning process that strives to problem-solve client care issues by combining logic, intuition, and creativity. The goal of critical thinking is to assist clients to use what they already know and work with the client to make changes that they identify through self-discovery. Asking the client to identify goals to improve health is one strategy that the nurse can use when implementing critical thinking with client education. The other choices do not support critical thinking with client education.
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