The concept care map is a process used to help develop and learn thinking skills and understand the nursing process
a. How is the concept care mapping useful in teaching the nursing process?
b. Does it apply critical thinking skills to the nursing process? If so, how?
Students' answers should include the following:
a. Concept care mapping uses information about the client. It takes all the important information and links it all together. It helps the nursing students learn the nursing process by including all important and relevant medical information.
Discussion of what is included and how this works to show the visual data and information to the students who are learning the nursing process can be discussed. Students can discuss how useful it is as a tool to learn the parts of the nursing process and what to include.
b. Discuss on what critical thinking skills are and if the concept care mapping helps learn these skills.
Critical thinking skills help with prioritizing problems and potential problems, which are part of the nursing process.
Discussion on how this can be beneficial to the nursing process and a more accurate nursing diagnosis for the client could be discussed.
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