Critical Thinking Assignment : Chapter 2

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Proposition
1.In your own words, critical is:
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__Expressing adverse or disapproving comment or judgments or involving careful
judgment about the good and bad parts of something.
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2. List four characteristics of a critical thinker that you wish to improve in yourself.
a. Internalize intellectual standards. And try to develop heightened awareness of one of the
universal intellectual standard. With clarity, precision, accuracy, relevance, depth, breadth,
logicalness and significance.
b. keep an intellectual journal, each week , write out a certain number of journal entries and
keeping each numbered stage separate.
c. Redefind the way you see things
d. Try to use up wasted time
3. How is clinical judgement developed?
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__Case review is one of the best way to developed your clinical judgment, use up wasted time,
internalize intellectual standards, keep an intellectual journal, reshape your character, hobnob
with people smart than yourself. Not only can you bet the smart people themselves rub
shoulders with people smarter than they are, you can also bet that some of that intelligence is
going to permeate your perspective.
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4. How does the scientific method help a nurse to solve a problem?
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5. List ways the LPN/LVN can specifically adhere to the NFLPN Standards of Practice in regard
to legal/ethical status, practice, and continuing education (one way for each): (See the textbook
website for the NFLPN Nursing Practice Standards.)
a.
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b.
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c.
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IDENTIFICATION
Phases of the Nursing Process
There are five major phases or components of the nursing process: assessment, nursing
diagnosis, planning, implementation,and evaluation. Four of these apply to the LPN/LVN: data
collection (assessment), planning, implementation, and evaluation.
Directions: Fill each nursing action, identify the name of the phase in which the action occurs.
1. ________________________evaluation______________________ Noting whether the
application of heat has relieved muscle pain
2. _____implementation _________________________________________ Referring the
patient and family to a community support group
3. _______planning_______________________________________ Setting a goal for
prevention of damage to the skin from prolonged pressure
4. _________assessment_____________________________________ Assisting a patient to
turn, cough, and breathe deeply every 2 hours after surgery
5. _________implementation_____________________________________ Changing the
types of nourishing fluids offered to a patient to ones that he prefer
6. ___________evaluation___________________________________ Asking how often the
patient normally has a bowel movement
7. __________assessment____________________________________ Looking at the
laboratory report on a patient's chart to determine the results of a urinalysis
8. ___________implementaion___________________________________ Teaching a patient
to administer his own insulin

COMPLETION
 Directions: Fill in the blanks to complete the statement.
1. The nursing process is a rational way of helping nurses perform their tasks more
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2. An example of how critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and clinical judgment are
applied to the nursing process is
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3. The focus of nursing should be on

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needs, ______________________________________________________ nursing
care, and _______________________________________ the plan.

4. Ongoing ____________________________________________ is a necessary and

important part of the nursing process.

5. Formulating the nursing care plan and writing outcome criteria are joint processes
between the nurse and the
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