Personally I understand that critical thinking is a way of using several concepts to identify solutions and determine a course of action to solve patient’s care problem. Every patient that comes to the hospital is looking up to the health care team to solve the problem with which they are presenting; therefore the nurse must be able to explore all avenues to solve their care problems.
In a bid to identify and solve these problems it will involve using concepts like exploring where steps must be taken to gather information or data together, it could be through interview taking a complete health history from the patient’s and thorough examination is done.
After this analysis of the data is done to sort out those subjective and the objective data,
confirming those that need to be confirmed. All the objective data that are substantiated are then prioritized to be attended to according to their priorities. Explanation is done so that a concrete decision is made to address the health care problem that the patient is presenting with. This whole care is evaluated to see if the patient’s care need had been met. I also understand that for a nurse to be competent in giving adequate nursing care he or she must develop his or her ability to think critically. He must be able to think back reflecting on a patient’s situation and this will give insight and meaning in the situation. He must be able to use language effectively, he must be clear and precise so that the patient, the family and others can have distinct instruction about patient’s care and this will come through various experiences. The nurse stands at a very strategic position in the health care team, he stands at a very strategic position in the health care team to enhance the total care rendered, therefore the nurse need to be able to make accurate and appropriate clinical decision at all time so he needs to develop his ability to think critically to be able to give the correct and adequate care at all times. The patient comes to the hospital with different complaints and the family background, health history, health practices, beliefs etc differs from one another therefore there is need to plan care for each unique patient and the patient’s problem. Critical thinking ability will help the nurse to address each patient and their unique problem accordingly which will improve the health status of the community make patients and even their family members to be more comfortable with the care given, it will make care and treatment to be cost effective and good rapport is built between the health care team and the community.
Health Care workers are constantly faced with legal and ethical issues every day during the course of their work. It is important that the health care workers have a clear understanding of these legal and ethical issues that they will face (1). In the case study analysed key legal and ethical issues arise during the initial decision-making of the incident, when the second ambulance crew arrived, throughout the treatment and during the transfer of patient to the hospital. The ethical issues in this case can be described as what the paramedic believes is the right thing to do for the patient and the legal issues control what the law describes that the paramedic should do in this situation (2, 3). It is therefore important that paramedics also
The cost of Medical equipment plays a significant role in the delivery of health care. The clinical engineering at Victoria Hospital is an important branch of the hospital team management that are working to strategies ways to improve quality of service and lower cost repairs of equipments. The team members from Biomedical and maintenance engineering’s roles are to ensure utilization of quality equipments such as endoscope and minimize length of repair time. All these issues are a major influence in the hospital’s project cost. For example, Victory hospital, which is located in Canada, is in the process of evaluating different options to decrease cost of its endoscope repair. This equipment is use in the endoscopy department for gastroenterological and surgical procedures. In 1993, 2,500 cases where approximately performed and extensive maintenance of the equipment where needed before and after each of those cases. Despite the appropriate care of the scope, repair requirement where still needed. The total cost of repair that year was $60,000 and the repair services where done by an original equipment manufacturers in Ontario.
LeMone, P., Burke, K., & Bauldoff, G. (2011). Medical-surgical nursing: Critical thinking in patient care (5th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, Inc.
Critical thinking and knowledge are the foundation of nursing practice, and the most essential elements in providing quality nursing care. Nu...
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I spoke with N, a caucasian, 29 year old otherwise healthy female who suffered from an open fracture in her R tibia following a MVC. She was traveling as a restrained passenger along a rain-dampened road when a car traveling towards her vehicle lost traction with the road, colliding with her vehicle. Her vehicle was totaled. In the other vehicle, none of the passengers were wearing seat belts. Several passengers in the other vehicle were ejected from the vehicle, many sustained multiple critical injuries and there were two fatalities. N was taken via EMS to Temple University Hospital ER, where she was eventually admitted to Temple Orthopedics. She was hospitalized for 7 days and had 2 surgeries. One surgery needed to be rescheduled due to fever
Define a critical thinking task that your staff does frequently (Examples: treat high blood sugar, address low blood pressure, pain management, treat fever, etc.). Create a concept map or flow chart of the critical thinking process nurses should take to determine the correct intervention. Include how much autonomy a nurse should have to apply personal wisdom to the process. If the critical thinking process was automated, list two instances where a nurse may use “wisdom” to override the automated outcome suggested. Note the risks and benefits of using clinical decision-making systems.
Caring promotes patient health, individual growth, and stimulates coping skills, and therefore must always be emphasized in holistic patient care (Zimmerman & Phillips). In addition to its value in patient care it is also a central component of a nurses critical thinking process (Zimmerman & Phillips, 2000). “According to Brookfield (1987), critical thinking is a process of active inquiry which combines reflective analysis with informed action and has an emotive or affective component that is central to this process”(Zimmerman & Phillips, 2000, p. 223). Thus, when a nurse is aware of their patient’s holistic needs they are better able to care for their patient and in doing so enhance their critical thinking abilities (Zimmerman &
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When it comes to nursing school and nursing as a career, clinical reasoning and critical thinking go hand in hand. The APA states that critical thinking is defined as, “purposeful, self-regulatory judgment that uses cognitive tools such as interpretation, analysis, evaluation, inference, and explanation of the evidential, conceptual, methodological, criteriological, or contextual considerations on which judgment is based”(as cited in Clinical Reasoning, Decision making, and Action: Thinking Critically and Clinically, Benner,Hughes,Sutphen, 2008). Also stated by the APA, clinical reasoning is defined as, “a situated, practice-based form of reasoning that requires a background of scientific and technological research-based knowledge about general
It is a process in which knowledge and experience are applied to various alternatives in consideration in order to achieve the desired objective. It is a process that involves both inductive as well as deductive cognitive skills. Critical thinking is considered as inherent in making sound clinical reasoning. As critical reasoning and thinking make use of logical arguments they most probably lead one towards the evidence of any issue and help one to get down to the root cause of the problem. Hence it becomes a very crucial as well as vital part of the process that is constructed to resolve an ethical violation issue related to cyber technology.
Critical thinking means accurate thinking in the search of appropriate and dependable knowledge about the world. Another way to describe it is sensible, insightful, responsible, and skillful thinking that is focused on deciding what to believe or do. Critical thinking is not being able to process information well enough to know to stop for red lights or whether you established the right change at the supermarket.
In the healthcare setting, a systematic process to ensure maximum care and maximum recovery in patients is needed, which is called the nursing process. This process consists of four steps: assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation (Walton, 2016). The nursing process is important to ensure quality care and to get the preferred outcome. In the nursing process, critical thinking is used to recognize the issue and come up with a logical solution to solving it. One important aspect of the nursing process is that the plan is not set in stone; it is meant to be manipulated in order to better suit the patient. Nurses must be able to think critically in order to recognize the issue, develop a way to correct it, and be able to communicate the issue to others. Throughout the nursing process, critical thinking is used to determine the best plan of care for a patient based on their diagnosis.