The nursing process involves critical thinking skills throughout all parts of the process
a. Is critical thinking a learned process or does it come with experience?
b. How is critical thinking applied in the nursing process?
Students' answers should include the following:
a. Critical thinking can be discussed by definition of what it is and what policies, standards, laws, and ethics guide it.
Discuss critical thinking being a learned behavior, or coming from knowledge and experience, or a combination of the above and by cognitive thinking skills as well.
b. The nursing process helps nurses use critical thinking skills along with other skills, including problem solving, when assessing and forming the portions that make up the nursing process.
Cognitive and mental skills are also used when applying the nursing process.
Discussion can be on the importance of each of these and how they relate to experience and learning the nursing process.
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