Using Your Head to Land on Your Feet : A Beginning Nurse's Guide to Critical Thinking

by Raingruber, Bonnie, Ph.D.; Haffer, Ann

• ISBN13: 9780803606067
• ISBN10: 0803606060
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-04-01
• Publisher: F a Davis Co

Summary

This book lets your students use other beginners' clinical experiences to establish their own clinical reasoning skills. Each chapter contains 10 to 12 scenarios written by students, describing situations they faced in clinical. After each scenario, a list of questions helps your students identify and evaluate decision points, empowering them to develop habits for reflection and patterns of successful decision making. "This book is an answer to my prayers. A print version of "walking the student" through the process of thinking. The institution may do it verbally but this makes the process real." -- Judith Ann Kilpatrick, Lecturer, Widener University, Chester, Pennsylvania

Table of Contents

Approaches For Developing Critical Thinking Habits	1	(10)
What to Do When You Don't Know What To Do Scattered? Disorganized? Frozen?	11	(44)
The Power of Questioning	55	(40)
Staying Open to Possibilities Learning to Ask ``What Else?'' and ``What If?''	95	(42)
The Art of Making Ethical Decisions	137	(46)
References	183	(2)
Index	185