THINKING POWER

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THINKING POWER
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Objectives

• 1. Define critical thinking.
• 2. State how critical thinking is essential to
  nursing practice.
• 3. Identify strategies that will facilitate the
  development of critical and creative thinking
  skills.

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Successful Intelligence depends on 3 thinking
skills
THINKING SKILLS
practical
analytical
creative
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CRITICAL THINKING(Analytical thinking)
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What is it?

• The ability to reason
• More than just recall
• The ability to apply knowledge
• Being innovative

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Critical/Analytical thinking is

• when you take in information, examine the
  information by asking questions about it, and
  then put it to use in one or more of the
  following ways

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• Problem solving
• Making decisions
• Reasoning
• Opening your mind to new things
• Planning strategically

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A Path to Critical/Analytical Thinking
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Take in information
Ask questions
Use information
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Taking in information

• This is your raw material
• It involves
• Recall
• Input from what you hear
• What you see
• What you read
• What you experience

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Ask questions????

• ?what, when, where, why
• ?What effect does this info have
• ?How is this similar/different from what I know

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More Questions??

• ?will this information help solve a problem or
  make a decision
• ?is this fact or opinion
• Questioning is the key to linking what you learn
  to other information

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Learning exercise

• Its 3 am in the hospital and Ms. Avon, the
  nurse, sees a patients overhead room light on.
  She walks into the room and says, Hi, Mr. Trent,
  I noticed your light on. How are you doing?
• The patient smiles and says. Im fine.
• The nurse observes that there are wads of used
  tissues on the floor the sheets are all twisted
  Mr. Trents eyes are puffy and red.

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Conclusions

• The patient is fine, is normally awake at this
  hour, and may have been rubbing his eyes because
  of his allergies
• The patient is fine but cant sleep because he
  napped all day. His eyes are always red and puffy

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• The patient is not fine but doesn't want to talk
  about it
• The patient is not fine but doesnt know how to
  ask for help.

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Using Information

• This is evident by
• What you say
• What you do
• What you write
• What you create

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Using information

• Put what you learn to work by
• Problem solving
• Making decisions
• Strategic planning
• Reasoning
• Seeing new perspectives

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How do we use CT in Nursing?
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• Analyzing separating or breaking a whole into
  parts to discover their nature, function a
  relationship
• Applying standards judging according to
  established personal, professional, or social
  rules or criteria

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• Discriminating recognizing differences and
  similarities among thing or situations and
  distinguishing care fully as to category or rank
• Information seeking searching for evidence,
  facts, or knowledge by identifying relevant
  sources and gathering objective, subjective
  historical , and current data from those sources

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• Logical reasoning drawing inference or
  conclusion that are supported in or justified by
  evidence
• Predicting envisioning a plan and its
  consequences
• Transferring knowledge changing or converting
  the condition, nature, form or function of
  concepts among contexts

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SUMMARY

• REMEMBER THE COMPONENTS OF CRITICAL/ANALYTICAL
  THINKING
• IT IS A SKILL THAT TAKES PRACTICE
• - KEY COMPONENTS FOR NURSES
• 1) OBSERVATION
• 2) MAKING CONNECTIONS
• 3) QUESTIONING

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Blooms taxonomy

• Knowledge remembering facts, names, events,
  rote recall
• Comprehension putting information into your own
  words
• Application taking learned information and
  using it in a new situation
• Analysis examining or breaking down the parts
  of information
• Synthesis combining pieces of information to
  create a larger and newer piece of
  information
• Evaluation assessing or judging the worth of
  information

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• CREATIVE THINKING

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• Creativity forms a bridge between analytical and
  practical thinking
• Practical thinking
• CREATIVITY
• Analytical thinking

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Creative Strategies

• Brainstorming
• Shift your perspective
• Take a risk
• Set the stage
• Be curious
• Be spontaneous

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3.Problem solvers propose a solution based on
the evidence and their examination of that
evidence.
2.Critical thinkers use information by applying,
analyzing, synthesizing, or evaluating it.

• Information
• Received

Creative thinkers are problem solvers who
broadened their thinking by becoming aware of
more possibilities
4.Creative thinkers solve problems by coming up
with new and different solutions.
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• Creative thinking
• You have to do things differently if you want
  different results

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• PRACTICAL THINKING

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• This is the common sense aspect
• It is developed from personal experience rather
  than formal or academic lessons
• It is putting into action what you know
• there is also an emotional connection

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Practical Strategies

• Make the most of your personal strengths
• Learn from every experience both good and bad
• Apply what you learn dont keep repeating the
  same mistake