CRITICAL THINKING FOR NURSES: A ROADMAP TO EFFECTIVE NURSING PRACTICE

Course overview

Purpose: This program will identify to nurses the importance of using sound critical thinking as a foundation for exercising best practice clinical judgment and how failure to apply critical thinking can impair decision-making. Learning Objectives: 1. Define critical thinking, clinical reasoning and clinical judgment. 2. Describe the 5 key indicators of a critical thinker. 3. Identify the correlation of critical thinking and clinical reasoning versus clinical judgment. 4. Cite the focus of critical thinking. 5. Describe three uses for critical thinking in nursing practice.