A nurse asks her mentor, "What can I do to develop better critical thinking skills?" The best re-sponse for the mentor would be:
1. "Critical thinking includes judgment, intuition, and expertise. It takes years to develop expertise, so be patient and the skill will develop."
2. "Critical thinking uses an explicit linear process, depending primarily on keeping data organized, so focus on organization."
3. "Critical thinking is entirely dependent on making a rapid nursing diagnosis. Concentrate on speeding up your diagnosis making."
4. "Critical thinking requires observing, distinguishing, validating, organizing, and categorizing data. Being aware of the components can help you use the process."
ANS: 4
Critical thinking is a deliberate process. Knowing the components can help the nurse use each systematically. 1. This response is placating and not a helpful response. 2. The process of critical thinking is diffuse, not linear, and involves several other components. 3. Critical thinking requires looking at many possible reasons for the problem, so nursing diagnosis should be carefully, rather than hastily, made.
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