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