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Critical Thinking And Clinical Reasoning
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logic-and-reasoning
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Answer 23 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Taking something for granted or making a logical leap to reach a conclusion without proof - resulting in a conclusion that may be true or false.
Assumption
Relevance
Deductive reasoning
Precision
2. A cognitive process that includes creativity - problem solving - and decision making.
Critical thinking
Creativity
Concept
Decision making
3. How strongly something relates to the matter at hand.
Relevance
Creativity
Intuition
Reasoning
4. Formalized - logical - systematic approaches to solving problems.
Scientific method
Critical analysis
Deductive reasoning
Intellectual standard
5. Ending or end point; the final decision - determination - or result.
Conclusion
Critical thinking
Inference
Precision
6. Abstract ideas or mental images of phenomena or reality.
Concept
Intuition
Clinical reasoning
Critical thinking
7. Seeing something clearly without bias or judgment.
Deductive reasoning
Clarity
Reasoning
Intuition
8. The thinking process that allows nurses to logically draw conclusions and make a clinical judgment.
Concept
Intellectual standard
Deductive reasoning
Clinical reasoning
9. Making specific observations from a generalization.
Intellectual standard
Assumption
Deductive reasoning
Scientific method
10. The process of establishing criteria by which alternative courses of action are developed and selected.
Assumption
Precision
Decision making
Critical thinking
11. The potential to contribute to nursing science by enhancing client care - testing or generating a theory - or resolving a day-to-day clinical problem.
Significance
Assumption
Clinical reasoning
Relevance
12. Accuracy as reflected by the ability to reproduce the same outcome.
Deductive reasoning
Critical analysis
Interpretation
Precision
13. Thinking that results in the development of new ideas and products.
Clarity
Scientific method
Creativity
Concept
14. Considering all relevant aspects of collected data about a client to reach a decision about the meaning of the data and the proper response.
Concept
Interpretation
Clinical judgment
Precision
15. A set of questions one can apply to a particular situation or idea to determine essential information and ideas and discard superfluous information and ideas.
Clinical judgment
Concept
Clarity
Critical analysis
16. How close data measurements are to their true value.
Deductive reasoning
Accuracy
Relevance
Significance
17. Interpretations or conclusions made based on cues or observed data.
Inference
Assumption
Deductive reasoning
Accuracy
18. Analysis of data to reach a specific conclusion; a mental representation of the meaning or significance of something.
Accuracy
Interpretation
Critical thinking
Deductive reasoning
19. Correct reasoning using inductive or deductive thinking in order to reach a conclusion or judgment.
Logic (or logical)
Conclusion
Creativity
Deductive reasoning
20. Making generalizations from specific data.
Interpretation
Accuracy
Inductive reasoning
Clarity
21. The understanding or learning of things without the conscious use of reasoning.
Concept
Intuition
Inductive reasoning
Clarity
22. Thinking that is both coherent and logical and can be inductive or deductive.
Reasoning
Logic (or logical)
Precision
Decision making
23. Process of thinking that results in reasonable - rational thoughts - involving clarity - accuracy - relevance - logicalness - breadth - precision - significance - completeness - fairness - and depth.
Intellectual standard
Decision making
Deductive reasoning
Clinical judgment