If a nurse is using critical thinking skills in deciding which of several options is the best, which would the nurse take into consideration?
1. Different situational effects
2. How the problem is usually handled
3. The easiest alternative
4. The nursing process
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Explanation: 1. Critical thinking involves choosing the best alternative from several, very much dependent
upon the situation in which the problem occurred. Handling the problem the way it?s usually
handled or choosing the easiest alternative may be easy but would not involve critical
thinking. The nursing process should be used in critical thinking, but the changing situation is
the more defining and specific characteristic of critical thinking.
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