on these eight elements of thought, the authors also provide a checklist readers can use to gauge critical thinking and improve critical thinking skills. For example, all reasoning should have a purpose or goal that can be communicated clearly, and which is also relevant and realistic. All questions should ideally be sub-divided into smaller issues for simplification and clarification, and to avoid complications. The critical thinker should also cultivate sufficient self-awareness to identify biases and assumptions in thought patterns, acknowledge points of view and potential alternative ways of looking at the subject. Critical thinkers also support their analyses with appropriate data and evidence, guided by established and articulate theoretical orientations. The… Continue Reading...
al., 2014). For nurses are expected to observe the conditions of the patients and make reliable decisions using the critical thinking skills. The nurses reach conclusions after evaluating the patient, identifying the problem, and advising on the best interventions programs. The nurse improves in their critical thinking skills in the process of working with patients. A nurse is a teacher because he/she teaches the patients about medications and the best way to manage their conditions.
How Will Change My Practice
The knowledge about the best nursing practice is important for a nurse. In the process of delivering the nursing roles, it is possible to improve in the practices day… Continue Reading...
can provide deeper insights into some of the mysteries of the craft.
In this course I hope to develop critical thinking skills as well as descriptive writing skills and, in general, how to write out a plot and generate tension and interest in a story.
Week 2 - Discussion 1
The core conflict represented in the story is that which serves as the main tension between the protagonist and the antagonist -- often the hero and the villain or foil. The theme of the story is the recurrent message or idea that keeps returning to the narrative over the course of events. Three literary elements in the story are… Continue Reading...
do with knowledge].
-- Ed Finkel, 2010
As the epigraph above emphasizes, during an era when critical thinking skills have assumed new importance, young people's academic and professional careers are still being controlled by high-stakes standardized testing regimes and teachers are increasingly being held accountable for student performance. As a result, it is little wonder that there has been a growing tendency on the part of many educators to "teach to the test." Indeed, and as also underscored by the epigraph above, the classroom testing process itself can be viewed as being counterproductive to the extent that it detracts from long-term learning and the development of… Continue Reading...
mediate its own potential negative effects by encouraging individuals to advance scientific knowledge and develop more powerful critical thinking skills.
New media helps advance the principles of science by helping all people have access to scientific research that would otherwise remain cordoned off in academic libraries. As Pinker (2010) points out, "scientists are never far from their e-mail, rarely touch paper and cannot lecture without PowerPoint," (p. 1). As a result of their increased connectivity and their use of digital technology, scientists more quickly share their results with peers, maximizing the time they spend on actual research and data collection. For example, a scientist who recently wrote… Continue Reading...
the program:
1. Successfully complete didactic programs, show demonstration of skills in a designated area of nursing
2. Impart critical thinking skills in the student nurse interns
3. Enable the student nurse intern to relate nursing to other knowledge fields such as sciences, liberal arts and humanities.
4. Train the student nurse intern to conduct physical assessments, come up with plans of care, assess patient outcomes and evaluate their responses.
5. Inculcate a spirit of team work in the student nurse intern (Holtz & Gnambs, 2017)
Evaluation of the program
Nursing students on externship should be technically evaluated to ensure the program’s objectives are met. The evaluation process is… Continue Reading...
work of others, you are not only developing your critical thinking skills in a way that will help you later on in life, but you are also putting yourself in the position of learning new approaches.
Further, peer review sharpens all the students. If you participate in peer review and take the process seriously, you will end up making yourself better, and your peers better. When you make your peers better, they in turn will be able to make you better when they review your work. So peer review is… Continue Reading...
had to change their BSN program in order to incorporate EBP. The programs encourage critical thinking skills and nursing students are encouraged to consider clinical, religious, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds of the patients as well as using the relevant scientific research available. EBP has led to an increased interest in and emphasis on nursing research. EBP has also improved patient outcomes in that nurses can now use current research to assist them in minimizing complications that are associated with chronic illness and prevent additional disease or illness.
I am the Cardiovascular Services Educator for CVICU and CVSD at my facility and my MSN program… Continue Reading...
critical thinking skills, knowledge, and virtues that are developed as a resulted of pursuing the practice for its own end—i.e., to be practiced. In the chess, example, MacIntyre indicates that the child who participates in the chess practice is going to gain internal goods because he is motivated by the practice for its own sake rather than by money, candy or some other external good. MacIntyre calls them internal goods because they can only be obtained by participation in the practice and they are specific to the practice that is… Continue Reading...
do not exercise the critical thinking skills needed to assess the threat level of a strange email, text or phone call. Employees have to be advised by organizations to be on the lookout for such communications and the organization has to develop a protocol to follow for every communication received.
Social engineering training can help organizations and their employees to be better prepared to handle any of the above described tactics. The goal is for employees to be mindful of the different ways that hackers could be out to dupe them. Getting into the… Continue Reading...
