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Clinical decision-making

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The continuous process characterized by open-mindedness, continual inquiry, and perseverance, combined with the willingness to look at each unique patient situation and determine which identified assumptions are true and relevant

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Concept map:

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Care-planning tool that assists in critical thinking and forming associations between a patient’s nursing diagnosis and interventions

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Critical thinking:

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Active, purposeful, organized, cognitive process used to carefully examine one’s thinking and the thinking of other individuals

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Diagnostic reasoning:

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Process that enables an observer to assign meaning to and classify phenomena and clinical situations by integrating observations in critical thinking

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Evidence-based knowledge:

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Knowledge that is derived from the integration of best research, clinical expertise, and patient values

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Inference:

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(1) judgment or interpretation of informational cues. (2) taking one proposition as a given and guessing that another proposition follows

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Nursing process:

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Systematic problem-solving method by which nurses individualize care for each patient. The five steps of the nursing process our assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation

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Problem-solving:

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Methodical, systematic approach to explore conditions and develop solutions, including analysis of data, determination of positive factors, and selection of appropriate actions to reverse or eliminate the problem

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Reflection:

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Process of thinking back or recalling an event to discover the meaning and purpose of that event. Useful in critical thinking

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Scientific method:

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Codified sequence of steps used in the formulation, testing, evaluation, and reporting a scientific ideas.

  • has five steps:
    1. Identifying the problem
    2. Collecting data
    3. Formulating a question or hypothesis
    4. Testing the question or hypothesis
    5. Evaluating results of the test or study