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K@ · **on:** Jul 23, 2018

The nurse implements a quicker way to set up and initiate an intravenous infusion while still following safe practice. Which attitude of critical thinking is this nurse practicing?

1. Independence
2. Intellectual courage to challenge the status quo or rituals
3. Integrity
4. Confidence

Question 2

The nurse who just moved from an urban area to a sparsely populated rural area understands that certain customs and practices the nurse follows may be quite foreign to the people in the new area.

Which attitude of critical thinking is the nurse demonstrating?
1. Fair-mindedness
2. Insight into egocentricity
3. Intellectual humility
4. Intellectual courage to challenge the status quo and rituals

juiceman1987 · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 23, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Correct Answer: 1
Rationale 1: Nurses who can think for themselves and consider different methods of performing technical skillsnot just the way they may have been taught in schooldevelop an attitude of independence.
Rationale 2: Courage to challenge the status quo comes from recognizing that sometimes beliefs are false or misleading. Integrity requires that individuals apply the same rigorous standards of proof to their own knowledge and beliefs; that is not what is described in the scenario.
Rationale 3: Integrity requires that individuals apply the same rigorous standards of proof to their own knowledge and beliefs; that is not what is described in the scenario.
Rationale 4: Confidence is the self-assurance to act on one's own beliefs; that is not what is described in the scenario.

Answer to Question 2

Correct Answer: 2
Rationale 1: Fair-mindedness means assessing all viewpoints with the same standards and not basing judgments on personal or group bias or prejudice.
Rationale 2: Critical thinkers are open to the possibility that their personal biases or social pressures and customs could unduly affect their thinking. They actively try to examine their own biases and bring them to awareness each time they make a decision. Understanding that how things were done and what practices were common may be completely different in the new surroundings is an example of the nurse implementing this attitude.
Rationale 3: Intellectual humility means having an awareness of the limits of one's own knowledge.
Rationale 4: Intellectual courage to challenge the status quo and rituals is taking a fair examination of one's own ideas or views, especially those to which one may have a strongly negative reaction.