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