Showing critical thinking

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How do you show your clinical instructor you are critically thinking.?I know in the busy unit you don't always get to see them but how can you be effective in showing them you are critically thinking.

What are your views on critical thinking in nursing any advice?

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I tell my instructors information before they ask me about it. For instance, if you're giving furosemide, tell your instructor about your client's BP, serum K, I/O, and any symptoms such as edema, shortness of breath, crackles. Show your instructor that you know what to look up about your patient before he or she asks.

Ask questions after you've looked things up too. Maybe your client is being discharged or is having a procedure done and you either don't agree with what's going on or you're not quite sure why it's happening. Look up their progress notes, history, labs, and tests; tell your instructor what you know, what you can deduce from what you know, and then ask your instructor for input. Even if you're wrong about something, this at least show your instructor that the wheels are turning.

What are your views on critical thinking? Why do you think it's important for nurses to be more than providers' puppets?

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Specializes in Public Health, TB.

Prioritization is also a form of critical thinking. If you are taking on multiple patients, or even 2, which will you see first? You client needs a finger stick, prandial insulin, an inhaler, oral potassium, and assistance with feeding. Which will you do first? Is there anything you can delegate?

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Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.

Here at AN we prefer to have students tell us what they think first. I believe it is important to have students answer what they think first so I can be sure they are on the right track first.

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Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.
How do you show your clinical instructor you are critically thinking.?I know in the busy unit you don't always get to see them but how can you be effective in showing them you are critically thinking.

What are your views on critical thinking in nursing any advice?

What do you think?

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What do you think?

IthinkcriticalthinkingisaboutmakingconnectionsandaskingthequestionwhyoneverythingIdo.Ithinkcriticalthinkingisproblemsolvingandthusthinkingoutsidethebox.it'saboutlookingfortheanswerandissomethingyoudevelopovertimethroughexperience

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Use your critical thinking skills to find out the answer :sneaky:

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Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.
IthinkcriticalthinkingisaboutmakingconnectionsandaskingthequestionwhyoneverythingIdo.Ithinkcriticalthinkingisproblemsolvingandthusthinkingoutsidethebox.it'saboutlookingfortheanswerandissomethingyoudevelopovertimethroughexperience

I don't understand your answer

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Critical Thinking Skills for a very minute-few is second nature. For the majority, it is learned through experience.

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