A clinical instructor senses that a student has been struggling with clinical skills learned in lab. To combat this, the educator pairs the student with a staff nurse who has clients with a variety of treatments and cares
Which type of problem solving is the instructor using?
1. Trial and error
2. Intuition
3. Research process
4. Experience
Correct Answer: 2
Rationale 1: Trial and error uses a number of approaches until a solution is found.
Rationale 2: Intuition is the understanding or learning of things without the conscious use of reasoning. It is also known as the sixth sense, hunch, instinct, feeling, or suspicion. In this case, the educator has a sense that the student is struggling, although there are no real facts to support it.
Rationale 3: The research process is a systematic, analytical, and logical way to problem solve.
Rationale 4: Experience is part of intuition, but by itself, not a particular way to problem solve.
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