Chapter 15 Critical Thinking in Nursing Practice

knowledge based on research or clinical expertise.

Basic Critical Thinking- the learner trusts that the experts have the right answers to every problem.

Complex Critical thinking- Thinkers begin to separate themselves from authorities.

Committment Level- The person anticipates the need to make choices without assistance from others.

The process of determining a client's health status after you assign meaning to the behaviors, physical signs, and symptoms presented by the client. Ex: recognizing that the client feeling light-headed with blurred vision and who has a history of diabetes is experience blood glucose problems)

Inference is the process of drawing conclusions from related pieces of evidence. Inference involves forming patterns between data before making a diagnosis.