Professional Nursing Concepts & Challenges, 8th Edition By Beth Black
Professional Nursing Concepts & Challenges, 8th Edition By Beth Black
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Chapter 11: Developing Nursing Judgment Through Critical Thinking
Complete Chapter Questions With Answers
Sample Questions Are Posted Below
MULTIPLE CHOICE
| a. | Consideration of ethics and responsible decision making |
| b. | Ability to act quickly, often on impulse |
| c. | Ability to determine the best nursing interventions regardless of patient’s values and beliefs |
| d. | Flexible thinking that rarely follows a pattern or considers standards |
ANS: A
| Feedback | |
| A | Critical thinking in nursing is based on ethics and standards of the profession. |
| B | Critical thinking is consciously developed, complex, and purposeful, never impulsive. |
| C | Critical thinking and decision making are based on patient’s values and beliefs. |
| D | Critical thinking is based on a decision-making model and nursing standards. |
DIF: Cognitive Level: Comprehension REF: Page 216
| a. | “Don’t worry too much; it will come with time and experience.” |
| b. | Pay close attention to how you solve problems; assess your own style of thinking.” |
| c. | “Spend time shadowing an experienced nurse to see how it is done.” |
| d. | “Use ethical standards to guide how you approach patient situations.” |
ANS: B
| Feedback | |
| A | Although time and experience are important in developing critical thinking, people actually must actively consider how they think in order to improve critical thinking. |
| B | Making thinking a focus of concern and actively thinking about it is the best advise the faculty can give. |
| C | While observing an experienced nurse may be helpful, the student needs to be an active participant to improve critical thinking. |
| D | Using ethical and professional standards is a part of critical thinking, but that is only a portion of what makes a good critical thinker. |
DIF: Cognitive Level: Analysis REF: Pages 216-217
| a. | Inquisitiveness |
| b. | Narrow focus |
| c. | Unaffected by other arguments |
| d. | Quick decision making |
ANS: A
| Feedback | |
| A | The accomplished critical thinker needs to ask questions when things do not seem quite right. |
| B | The accomplished critical thinker thinks broadly, considering all possibilities. |
| C | The accomplished critical thinker considers all information and all arguments before deciding on a course of action. |
| D | The accomplished critical thinker considers the facts, fits them into known patterns, considers all aspects of the problem, and makes decisions based on knowledge, not on instinct. |
DIF: Cognitive Level: Comprehension REF: Page 215
| a. | Process of documentation designed to decrease liability |
| b. | Process designed to maximize reimbursement potential |
| c. | A sophisticated time-management strategy |
| d. | Process used to identify and solve patient problems |
ANS: D
| Feedback | |
| A | Although proper documentation is part of the nursing process, it is a problem-solving process, not a documentation process. |
| B | The nursing process is not used with reimbursement potential in mind. |
| C | The nursing process is not a time-management strategy. |
| D | The purpose of the nursing process is to identify and solve patient problems. |
DIF: Cognitive Level: Knowledge REF: Page 219
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