A client is complaining of shortness of breath, has no pallor, no cyanosis, and no accessory muscle use with respirations. The client's respiratory rate is 16 breaths per minute
The nurse is concerned that the client's report and the physical findings conflict. This nurse is using which universal standard of critical thinking?
1. Clarity
2. Accuracy
3. Logicalness
4. Significance
Correct Answer: 3
Rationale 1: Clarity provides examplesand that is not the process described in the stem.
Rationale 2: Accuracy is asking if something is true and that is not the process described in the stem.
Rationale 3: Logicalness would ask if the report follows from the evidence. In this case, it does not. However, the nurse is still questioning which shows she is engaged in critically thinking through the situation.
Rationale 4: Significance is prioritizing the facts and that is not the process described in the stem.
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