Nurse Q has 12 patients she is responsible for on the orthopedic floor this evening. She "gets a feeling" that she need to check on Mr. Zed in room 437 even though he was fine and sitting up in bed one hour ago when she made rounds
She discovered him on the floor after trying to reach the bathroom and calls for help. What type of thinking was Nurse Q responding to? a. clinical thinking c. reflective thinking
b. critical thinking d. intuitive thinking
D
When nurses and health care professionals; respond to an innate sense that helps them act in certain situations (Gardner, 2003), also referred to as "gut feelings," this is called intuitive thinking. Reflective thinking is watching or observing ourselves as we perform tasks or make a decision about a specific issue (Pesut & Herman, 1999). Critical thinking is thinking about your thinking while you are thinking as a means of improving your thinking skills (Paul, 1992), and clinical thinking is what nurses and health care professionals do when in a clinical situation but is not a specified type of thinking or decision making.
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Fill in the blank(s) with correct word