Critical thinking...the awakening of the intellect to the study of itself. Critical thinking is a rich concept that has been developing throughout the past 2500 years. The term "critical thinking" has its roots in the mid-late 20th century. We offer here overlapping definitions, together which form a substantive, transdisciplinary conception of critical thinking.

1. Critical thinking
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3. Definition
• Critical thinking skills can be used to help nurses during
the assessment process. Through the use of critical
thinking, nurses can question, evaluate, and reconstruct
the nursing care process by challenging the established
theory and practice.

5. Steps
• Step 1: Knowledge. ...
• Step 2: Comprehension. ...
• Step 3: Application. ...
• Step 4: Analysis. ...
• Step 5: Synthesis

9. unreflective
We all are born as unreflective thinkers,
fundamentally unaware of the role that
thinking is playing in our lives. Most of
us also die this way. At this unreflective
stage, we have no useful conception of
what thinking entails. ... We think of our
beliefs as truth. We think of our
decisions as sound.
challenged
• Thinkers move to the “challenged”
stage when they become initially
aware of the determining role that
thinking is playing in their lives, and
of the fact that problems in their
thinking are causing them serious
and significant problems.

10. Advanced
• Advanced thinkers regularly critique
their own plan for systematic
practice, and improve it thereby.
Practicing thinkers regularly
monitor their own thoughts. They
insightfully articulate the strengths
and weaknesses in their thinking.
practicing
• Good Thinking Can Be Practiced Like
Basketball, Tennis, or Ballet. ... When
people explicitly recognize that
improvement in thinking requires
regular practice, and adopt some
regimen of practice, then, and only
then, have they become what we call
"practicing thinkers.

11. beginning
• Are You Willing to Begin? When a
person actively decides to take up the
challenge to grow and develop as a
thinker, that person enters the stage we
call "beginning thinker." This is the
stage of thinking in which one begins
to take thinking seriously.

12. Master thinking
• have systematically taken charge of their thinking, but are also continually
monitoring, revising, and re-thinking strategies for continual improvement of
their thinking. They have deeply internalized the basic skills of thought, so
that critical thinking is, for them, both conscious and highly intuitive.

13. benefits
• learn content at a deeper and more permanent level
• are better able to explain and apply what they learn,
• are better able to connect what they are learning in one class with what they
are learning in other classes,
• ask more and better questions in class
• understand the textbook better,

14. • follow directions better,
• understand more of what you present in class,
• write better,
• apply more of what they are learning to their everyday life,
• become more motivated learners in general,
• become progressively easier to teach.