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