Critical Thinking and the Nursing Process

Title
Critical Thinking and the Nursing Process
Publication Date
2012
Author(s)
Scully, Natashia
Editor
Editor(s): Audrey Berman, Shirlee Snyder, Tracy Levett-Jones, Trudy Dwyer, Majella Hales, Nichole Harvey, Yoni Luxford, Lorna Moxham, Tanya Park, Barbara Parker, Kerry Reid-Searl, David Stanley
Type of document
Book Chapter
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Pearson Australia
Place of publication
Frenchs Forest, Australia
Edition
2
UNE publication id
une:12176
Abstract
Analysing complex data about patients, making decisions about problems, identifying a range of possible interventions and deciding on the most appropriate are all integral aspects of nursing practice. Nurses today must be informed and inquisitive and base their practice on high quality evidence. Although critical thinking has many definitions, one of the most useful for nursing is from the North American National League for Nursing (2000): 'Critical thinking in nursing practice is a discipline specific, reflective reasoning process that guides a nurse in generating, implementing, and evaluating approaches for dealing with client care and professional concerns' (p. 2). The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Council (2008) national competency standards indicate the need for registered nurses and midwives to be able to think critically about client care and to have the skills to contribute to the evidence-based practice framework through research and to apply research to their practice.
Link
link
Citation
Kozier and Erb's Fundamentals of Nursing: Second Australian Edition, v.1, p. 196-210
ISBN
9781442541672
9781442541665
Start page
196
End page
210

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