- interpretation of a patient’s needs,
concerns, or health problems
- to make decision to take action
or not
CLINICALJUDGMENT
• Making accurate & appropriate decisions
• Nurses must learn to
question, wonder, and
explore different
perspectives and
interpretations to find a
solution that benefits
the patient. • Separates nurses from
technical personnel
CLINICALDECISION
APPLICATION OF (COMPONENTS OF CRITICAL TTHINKING):
• Knowledge • Attitude • Clinicalexperiences
• Professionalstandards
• exercising or involving careful judgment or judicious evaluation
• Involving the objective analysis and
evaluation of an issue in order to form
a judgement.
CRITICAL
• The ability to think
in a systematic and
logical manner with
openness to
question and reflect
on the reasoning
process • Recognizing that an
issue exists,
analyzing
information,
evaluating
information, and
drawing conclusions
CRITICAL THINKING
Components of Critical Thinking:
• SpecificKnowledgeBase
• Experience
• Competencies
• Attitudes
• Standards
levels of critical thinking:
level 1 - Basic critical thinking
level 2 - Complex critical thinking
level 3 - Commitment critical thinking
• a learner trusts that experts have the right answers for every problem.
• Thinking is concrete and based on a set of rules or principles.
• thinker learns to accept the diverse opinions and values of experts. •Negative components of Critical Thinking can restrict thinkers ability to move to nextlevel
BASICCRITICALTHINKING
level 1 of critical thinking
Basic critical thinking
level 2 of critical thinking
Complex critical thinking
level 3 of critical thinking
Commitment critical thinking
• thinkers begin to separate themselves from
experts and analyze the clinical situation and examine choices more independently.
• each solution has benefits and risks that you
weigh before making a final decision • Thinking becomes creative and innovative
COMPLEX CRITICAL THINKING
• Can anticipate when to make choices
without assistance from others and accept
accountability for decisions made • chooses an action or belief that is based on
the available alternatives and support it
COMMITMENT CRITICAL THINKING
General critical thinking:
• Scientificmethod • Problem solving
• Decision making
Specific critical thinking:
• Diagnostic reasoningandinference
• Clinical decision making
• Used as a competency when delivering
patient care • A five –step clinical decision making
approach
• Purpose: is to diagnose and treat human
responses to actual or potential
• Requires the nurse to use Gen. & specific
critical thinking competencies
NURSINGPROCESSASACOMPETENCY
a systematic, rational method of planning and providing individualized
nursing care
NURSING PROCESS SYSTEM
Originated the
term nursing
process in 1955
Lydia E. Hall
1955
Lydia E. Hall
1959
Dorothy Johnson
1961
Ida JeanOrlando
1963
Ernestine Wiedenbach
Purposes of Nursing Process System:
• To identify a client’s healthstatus and actual orpotential health care
• To establish plans to meet
the identified needs
• To deliver specific nursing interventions to meet thoseneeds
Characteristics of the Nursing Process:
• CYCLICALANDDYNAMICNATURE
• CLIENTCENTEREDNESS
• FOCUSONPROBLEM SOLVINGANDDECISIONMAKING
• INTERPERSONALANDCOLLABORATIVE
• UNIVERSALAPPLICABILITY
• USEOFCRITICAL THINKINGANDCLINICAL REASONING
characteristic of nursing process that organizes the plan of
care according to client
problems rather than
nursing goals.
CLIENT CENTEREDNESS
▪ characteristics of nursing process that is involved in every phase ▪ characteristics of nursing process that is not bound by standard responses and
may apply their repertoire of skills and
knowledge
FOCUS ON PROBLEM SOLVING AND DECISION MAKING
• characteristic of nursing process that requires to communicate directly and consistently with clients family to meet their needs.
• characteristic of nursing process that requires to collaborate, as members of the health care team
INTERPERSONAL ANDCOLLABORATIVE
characteristic of nursing process used as a framework for nursing care in all types of health care
settings, with clients of all age
groups
UNIVERSALAPPLICABILITY
characteristic of nursing process that utilize clinical reasoning throughout the delivery of nursing care
USEOFCRITICALTHINKINGANDCLINICALREASONING
• A Critical Thinking process that professional nurses use
to apply the best available evidence to caregiving & promoting human functions
and responses to health & illness • Dynamic and continuous
NURSING PROCESS
Deliberate & systematic collection of
information about a patient to determine
his/her current & past health and
functional status & his/her present and
past coping patterns
ASSESSMENT
types of Assessment:
• PATIENT-CENTEREDINTERVIEW
• PHYSICALEXAMINATION
• PERIODICASSESSMENT
2 steps of Assessment:
step 1 - COLLECTIONANDVERIFICATIONOFDATA
step 2 - ANALYSISOFDATA
collect and verify data from the patient (PRIMARY SOURCE)
collects data from family, health care providers, medical records (SECONDARY SOURCE)
COLLECTION AND VERIFICATION OF DATA
data will be used to develop the nursing diagnosis
ANALYSIS OF DATA
sources of Data:
• Patient (interview, observation, physical examination) —the best source of information
• Family and significantothers
• Healthcareteam
• Medicalrecords
• Scientificliterature
• Nurse’sexperience
types of Data:
• SUBJECTIVE
• OBJECTIVE
patient’s verbal descriptions of their health
problems