Critical Thinking Tactics for Nurses: Tracking, Assessing and Cultivating Thinking to Improve Competency-Based Strategies

by Barbara Scheffer and M Rubenfeld

Book Overview

Critical Thinking TACTICS for Nurses addresses issues such as critical thinking language, awareness enhancement, the impact of critical thinking on quality care, mentoring the critical thinking of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0763747025
• ISBN13: 9780763747022
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"

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Critical Thinking Tactics for Nurses

Critical Thinking Tactics for Nurses has twelve chapters: 1. Frequently Asked Questions about Critical Thinking in Nursing; 2. What is Critical Thinking? 3. Who Are the Critical Thinkers? 4. Why is Critical Thinking so Important? 5. The How, When, and Where of Critical Thinking for Clinicians and Educators; 6. Critical Thinking and Patient-Centered Care; 7. Critical Thinking and Interdisciplinary Teams; 8. Critical Thinking and Evidence-Based Practice; 9. Critical Thinking and Informatics; 10. Critical Thinking and Quality Improvement; 11 Thinking Realities of Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow; and 12 Assessing Critical Thinking. There is a table of frequently asked questions about critical thinking in nursing with identification of the chapters where that content is discussed (pp.3-8) and one comparing multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and interprofessional teams (pp. 119-120). There are numerous boxes throughout the book on such topics thinking strategies (p. 14), critical thinking skills and habits of the mind (pp. 16-17; words to describe critical thinking (pp. 23-26); Gardner's Multiple Intelligences ( p. 37); thinking-promoting teaching style checklist (p. 47); Institute of Medicine core competencies (p. 77); critical thinking promoting and squelching comments and behaviors (p. 82); teaching techniques to promote processing and internalization of knowledge (pp. 87-88); validation remarks to promote patient participation in decisions (p. 108); and Institute of Medicine five criteria for achieving quality (p. 205). Sometimes tactics are listed or scenarios are presented. Chapter end with a pause and ponder section, reflection cues, and references. Appendix A is a critical thinking inventory and appendix B is an index of tactics. The book ends with an index. The authors synthesize the seventeen components of critical thinking with the Institute of Medicine's five competencies of patient-centered care, interdisciplinary team work, evidence-based practice, informatics, and quality improvement. Content from this book can be incorporated into numerous courses or be used in a course specifically about critical thinking.