Nurses Must Use Critical Thinking in Their Day-To-Day Practice, Especially

question 13

Multiple Choice

Nurses must use critical thinking in their day-to-day practice, especially in circumstances surrounding client care and wise use of resources. In which of the following situations would critical thinking be most beneficial?

• A) Teaching new parents car seat safety.
• B) Administering IV push medications to critically ill clients.
• C) When unexpected situations arise.
• D) Assisting an orthopaedic client with the proper use of crutches.

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Definitions:

Schema-Irrelevant

Information or stimuli that do not fit into an existing cognitive schema or framework, often requiring new schema to be developed or old ones to be modified.

Situational Attribution

A decision by an observer to attribute a behavior to environmental forces facing the person who performed it rather than to that person’s internal state. See also Dispositional attribution.

Dispositional Attribution

A decision by an observer to attribute a behavior to the internal state(s) of the person who performed it rather than to factors in that person’s environment.

Internal Locus

An individual's belief that they can control their life events and outcomes, as opposed to external forces having that control.