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