Critical Thinkers
Hai, Jennifer very descriptive post, as you noted nurses need to use their clinical judgement and critical thinking to choose whether their patients required a focused assessment or comprehensive assessment according to the situation. Critical thinkers are usually clear, accurate, precise, logical, significant and fair when they listen, speak, read and write .They think deeply and broadly also apply intellectual skills for sound reasoning. During the initial assessment nurses collect and examine information about health status, looking for evidence of abnormal function or risk factors that may contribute to health problems such as smoking also look for evidence of client strengths. Then nurses analyze the information and identify actual and