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jlmhmf · **on:** Jul 23, 2018

A nurse shows an understanding of the reasons critical thinking is so vital to today's nursing profession when stating:

1. Patient acuity is so much greater than it was even 10 years ago.
2. Care delivery systems are only as good as the nurses delivering care.
3. Nurses have always relied on common sense thinking to provide quality, appropriate nursing care.
4. With health care being so expensive, nursing has to take on responsibility to keep the costs controlled.
5. My practice involves caring for clients who require care that didn't even exist when I went to school.

Question 2

A nurse educator senses that a student has been struggling with clinical skills learned in lab. In the clinical area, this student is usually lagging behind and seems to be involved when the other students have opportunities to perform some of the tasks.

The educator pairs the student with a particularly outgoing staff nurse who has a number of unique clients with a variety of treatments and cares. The educator is utilizing which type of problem solving?
1. Trial and error
2. Intuition
3. Research process
4. Experience

gabrielle_lawrence · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 23, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Correct Answer: 1,2,4,5
Rationale 1: According to R. Alfaro LeFevre's Top 10 Reasons to Improve Thinking, patients are sicker, with multiple problems, and so nursing care requires a more critical form of thinking in order to meet their nursing needs.
Rationale 2: According to R. Alfaro LeFevre's Top 10 Reasons to Improve Thinking, redesigning care delivery is useless if nurses don't have the thinking skills required to deal with today's world.
Rationale 3: While this might be true, medicine and nursing have evolved tremendously, and so has the need for nurses to be critical thinkers.
Rationale 4: According to R. Alfaro LeFevre's Top 10 Reasons to Improve Thinking, consumers and payers demand to see evidence of benefits, efficiency, and results.
Rationale 5: According to R. Alfaro LeFevre's Top 10 Reasons to Improve Thinking, today's progress often creates new problems that can't be solved by old ways of thinking.

Answer to Question 2

Correct Answer: 2
Rationale: Intuition is the understanding or learning of things without the conscious use of reasoning. It is also known as the sixth sense, hunch, instinct, feeling, or suspicion. In this case, the educator has a sense that the student is struggling, though there are no real facts to support it. Experience is part of intuition, but by itself, not a particular way to problem solve. Trial and error uses a number of approaches until a solution is found, which is not the case here. Trial-and-error methods in nursing care can be dangerous because the client might suffer harm if an approach is inappropriate. The research process is a systematic, analytical, and logical way to problem solve.