1. Critical Thinking In
Nursing

2.  What is critical
thinking?
 “In nursing, critical thinking for
clinical decision-making is the
ability to think in a systematic
and logical manner with
openness to question and reflect
on the reasoning process used to
ensure safe nursing practice
and quality care” (Heaslip,
1993).

3. Nursing Diagnosis
 Interpretation of the data for
problem identification
 analysis of assessment data to
determine the client’s actual
and potential health
problems by the RN.

4.  Planning
 Reflective and reasonable
thinking that focused on
deciding what to belience or do
 development of a plan of action
to reduce, resolve, or prevent
potential problems, establish
priorities, formulating
goals/expected outcomes by the
RN, and planning nursing
actions while documenting the
nursing care plan.

5.  Implementation
 Putting plan in to action
 The delivery of nursing
care, performing the
planned nursing
interventions while
continuing to collect data
about the client

6. Skills used in
Critical
Thinking
 Information gathering
 Focusing
 Remembering
 Organizing
 Analyzing
 Generating
 Integrating
 evaluating

7. What are some
examples of
Critical
thinking?
 What decision did you
make today that
involved critical
thinking?
 How did you decide to
make that decision?
 Did you evaluate the
outcome of your
decision?

8. Nursing
assistant
approaches the
nurse and says a
patient’s Blood
Pressure is
84/58.
 What is the first thing you
would do?
 Using the SBAR, what would
you report to the doctor?
 What aspects would you re-
evaluate?

9.  Pt. complains of
being short of
breath and having
pain in mid-chest
area
 What is the first thing
you would ask this
patient
 How would you
determine the difference
between indigestion or
Heart Attack?
 Using SBAR, what
would you report to the
doctor?

10. What is your opinion
of using good critical
thinking skills?
 Give a scenario using
critical thinking.
 How do you measure
your critical thinking?
 What can a person do to
improve how they use
critical thinking?

11. When you
encountered a
problem, do not jump
in quickly to ask
others for answers
without figuring it out
yourself.
After understanding
the
situation, information
gathered must be
verified for accuracy
so that informed
decision can be made

12. "I cannot teach
anybody anything, I
can only make them
think."
- Socrates, Greek
philosopher
(469-399 BCE)