Critical Thinking in Nursing

Critical Thinking in Nursing
November 6, 2013

Abstract Critical think in nursing stands a vital skill and expectation from all nurses. In addition, accomplishes more variances when it comes to nursing and critical thinking. These skills remain a crucial aspect in professional nursing. In nursing, critical thinking consist of three main parts: Interpretation, analysis, and evaluation. Each nurse needs to use all three parts of the critical thinking toward being a professional nurse.

Critical Thinking in Nursing
Importance
“To become a professional nurse requires that you learn to think like a nurse”. (Critical Thinking and Nursing, 2013 paragraph 3) Critical thinking in the nursing profession must be mandatory. Critical thinking helps nurses how to view a client and determine the type of problems and how to deal with the issue at hand. Critical thinking contains a form of discipline, intellectual process of applying skills, and guidance. Nurses use critical thinking in order to make systematic and logical questions in order to maintain quality of care. This requires adherence to intellectual standards, proficiency in using reasoning, commitment to develop and maintain intellectual traits, and the ability for safe decision making. (Critical Thinking and Nursing, 2013)
Requirements
Critical thinking requires specific skills in order to stand effective. These skills remain a vital role in patient care. Interpretation, analysis, and evaluation all play a vital role.
Interpretation
Interpretation with critical thinking helps the ability to understand and explain the meaning of information; the ability to communicate effectively to a patient.
Analysis
In critical thinking, analysis affects the “investigation” usage of objective and subjective data in order to form a plan of action.
Evaluation
Evaluation ensures placement of all the information gathered and determining whether the information contains credible or relevant source. Determining what desired outcomes need to be reached. (Skills of Critical Thinking, 2006)
Critical Reasoning
Importance
Critical reasoning and critical thinking come hand in hand. Critical reasoning uses the foundation of nursing theories, models, and ethical framework.
How to use Critical reasoning The ability to apply researched based knowledge, clinical judgment, and decision making skills. Critical reasoning for nurses often used to evaluate care outcomes from data provided and creative ways to problem solve. (Thinking Critically and Clinically, 2007)
Usage of critical thinking Nurses use critical thinking skills daily in order to be clear accurate, precise, logical complete, significant and fair when they listen, speak, read and write. Their thinking must be precise and intended for a purpose. (Thinking Critically and Clinically, 2007) Skills and practice became a vital role in nursing; a requirement of educators of nursing students. Without these set skills quality of care would suffer. Critical thinking has become the foundation of nursing.
Validation
Authentication “The assumptions that we hold to be true about the issue upon which we base our claims or beliefs’.” (Skills of Critical Thinking, 2006 paragraph 6) Modern research has shown Critical thinking is the background of professional nursing. Critical thinking insures proper patient care and the ability to quickly respond with accurate answers. Critical thinking and critical reasoning bring validation to the nursing process.
The importance of validation Without Validation, critical thinking and critical reasoning will have no backing or hold no truth. Validation brings everything together for the entire process of critical thinking.

Bibliography
Skills of Critical Thinking . (2006, October 9). Retrieved November 2nd , 2013, from frontrange.edu: http://www.frontrange.edu/Academics/Academic-Departments/Larimer-Campus/Nursing/Larimer-Nursing-Critical-Thinking-in-Nursing.aspx
Thinking Critically and Clinically. (2007, March 5). Retrieved November 2, 2013, from ahrq.gov: http://www.ahrq.gov/professionals/clinicians-providers/resources/nursing/resources/nurseshdbk/BennerP_CRDA.pdf
Critical Thinking and Nursing . (2013). Retrieved November 2nd, 2013, from Criticalthinking.org: http://www.criticalthinking.org/pages/critical-thinking-to-think-like-a-nurse/834