Chapter 6 Critical Thinking, Decision Making, and Clnical Reasoning

The nurse leaders of a large acute care facility have decided to implement

shared decision making on each nursing unit and expect to see what result?

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The staff nurses from an orthopedic surgery unit are dissatisfied with the admission process of a patient following surgery. ... What problem-solving technique is the director of nursing using?

4. Appreciative inquiry

The nurse manager knows that which of the following is the first step in the critical thinking process?

1. Reflection

4. The nurse manager has been evaluating the nursing unit's strengths and weaknesses in an effort to ensure that the unit continues to improve its safety practices and is using what cognitive skill of the critical thinking

process in this exercise?

2. Self-Regulation

The nurse manager knows that which nurse on the medical-surgical unit will be the best at using intuitive thinking?

3. The nurse who worked in the intensive care unit for 1 year and has worked on this unit for 4 months

The nurse leader manages a nursing unit that has a preponderance of nurses who have graduated from nursing school within the last 12 months and knows that what type of thinking will provide the best guidance to the nursing staff?

3. Reflective

The nurse manager has determined that the nursing unit should see a reduction in medication errors by 50% and knows that this decision equates to what part of the nursing process?

3. Outcomes identification

The nurse manager has determined that patient care on the nursing unit would be more effi cient if a different nursing model was used and plans to use what tool for decision making that gives the manager the opportunity to look at more than one feasible alternative?

1. Decision-making grid

The nurse manager has decided to begin a shared decision-making model on the nursing unit and knows that individual staff nurses will receive what benefit from this decision?

2. Sense of empowerment

The nurse manager is holding a unit meeting and asks each staff member to share one thing that the individual believes works best on the unit. What technique is the nurse manager using in this meeting?

3. Appreciative inquiry

A nurse leader is explaining the process of appreciative inquiry to a group of nurses who hope to use this process in bringing change to their nursing unit. The leader shares that what are stages of appreciative inquiry? Select all that apply.

1. Discovery

2. Dreaming

4. Design

5. Destiny

The nurse manager is planning to use the DECIDE model to assist in improving nursing staff self-scheduling and is explaining the use of this tool by comparing it to the nursing process and knows that the ECI of the model corresponds to what parts of the nursing process? Select all that apply.

2. Diagnosis

3. Identification of outcomes