nursingCritical thinking in practice can help people with diverse health problems to achieve the bestnursingIt is a technique used to make sure that people can receive the best possible care, and is based on the principles and methods of science, and is based on thinking, inquisitive attitudes, and experience that make decisions based on evidence (facts) rather than speculation.
Critical thinking is an active, systematic cognitive process, used to carefully examine one's own and others' ideas, that involves recognizing the existence of a problem, exploring and analyzing information relevant to that problem, evaluating that information while also utilizing speculation and evidence, and drawing conclusions. Critical thinking techniques include interpretation, analysis, inference, evaluation, explanation, and self-regulation. The use of critical thinking requires the concepts of truth-seeking, open-mindedness, analyticity, organization, confidence, intellectual curiosity, and maturity. In other words, effective critical thinkers, when confronted with a problem, do not jump to one solution too easily, but rather focus on options for what to do or how to think, with an attitude of continuous questioning and an openness to the latest information.
nursingto provide accurate and appropriate clinicaldecision-makingThe responsibility to do so is todecision-makingis the result of critical thinking, which focuses on solving problems, and critical thinking isnursing postIt is important and essential in practice as a
References
(1) Patricia A. Potter, Anne Griffin Perry (Author)/Toshiko Ibe (Supervisor): The Master Books of Nursing Series Potter & Perry: Fundamentals of Nursing - Essential Knowledge and Skills for Practice, Elsevier Japan, 2007.
(2) Rosalinda Alfaro-LeFevre (Author) / Isamu Tahara, Aiko Emoto, Kiyoko Makimoto, et al. (Translators): Alfaro-Critical thinking in nursing situations, Igaku Shoin, 1996.

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