Question

Question

1.) Give examples of when you have applied general critical thinking and specific critical thinking skills in your non-nurse lives. How do nurses learn to set priorities?

Answer 1

Answer: We use critical thinking skills in our daily lives. Critical thinking includes observations, performance, evaluation as well as problem solving. One of the example includes as being a nursing student, the observation is important. A person having radiating pain in left arm and feeling chest pain. This indicates about the cardiac arrest. Hence taking to the person to the hospital at right time is also a critical thinking which includes decision making at the right time.

The nurse learn to set priorities from their experiences. The nurse educators as well as nurse leaders helps nurse to mange time, priorities their skills as well as indulging in various other nursing practice. Cognitive stacking enables the nurse to manage the priorities.