The practice of critical thinking empowers the nurse to recognize important cues in a given situation, and to respond to these quickly to adapt interventions to optimize their effectiveness and likelihood of producing a good outcome
This aspect of critical thinking: 1. Is similar to the way that a skilled nurse incorporates continued assessment and evaluation into practice, adapting the care plan in response to its effectiveness or change in client status.
2. Is another term for the nursing process.
3. Means that there is only one correct solution to a problem.
4. Indicates that critical thinking and the nursing process are unrelated.
Is similar to the way that a skilled nurse incorporates continued assessment and evaluation into practice, adapting the care plan in response to its effectiveness or change in client status.
Rationale: This is similar to the way that a skilled nurse incorporates continued assessment and evaluation into practice, adapting the care plan in response to its effectiveness or change in client status. The nursing process itself is cyclical, dynamic, and flexible in response to ongoing assessment of client needs and effectiveness of interventions, and is similar to the characteristic of critical thinking in the statement. Critical thinking and the nursing process are not synonymous; critical thinking enhances and complements the nursing process, but is not identical to it. Critical thinking does not mean that there is only one correct answer to a problem; rather it demands that the nurse looks at information related to the question from many different viewpoints to identify the next step. Critical thinking and the nursing process are not unrelated, but have some similarities; critical thinking enhances and complements the nursing process.
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