Within the Discussion Board area, write 300–500 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. You are required to use 2 scholarly resources, in addition to your textbook. Be substantive and clear and use examples to reinforce your ideas.
There are 17 dimensions of critical thinking (10 habits of the mind and 7 critical thinking skills). The 10 habits of the mind include the following (Rubenfeld & Scheffer, 2010):
Confidence
Contextual perspective
Creativity
Flexibility
Inquisitiveness
Intellectual integrity
Intuition
Open-mindedness
Perseverance
Reflection
The 7 critical thinking skills are as follows (University of Michigan, n.d.):
Analyzing
Applying standards
Discriminating
Information seeking
Logical reasoning
Predicting
Transforming knowledge
Discuss how these dimensions are displayed when using evidence-based practices to improve the quality and safety of nursing care in your clinical setting.
* I am an Operating room Nurse
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Critical thinking guides nurses to independently evaluate issues that they encounter in clinical practice and develop the best strategies to address them. For example, nurses should apply critical thinking to successfully utilize evidence-based practice in clinical practice. According to Rubenfeld (2014), critical thinking encompasses 7 critical thinking skills and 10 habits of the mind. The purpose of this discussion is to explore how habits of the mind and critical thinking skills are demonstrated when using evidence-based practices to improve the quality and safety of nursing care in operating room nursing.
Critical thinking dimensions are displayed in different ways when using evidence-based practices to improve the quality and safety of nursing care in operating room nursing. Nurses need confidence, contextual perspectives, and perseverance to be able to successfully utilize evidence-based practice to inform clinical practice (Rubenfeld, 2014). For example, operating room nurses handle patients who are experiencing severe pain after surgery. These cases are usually context-based because they involve patients with different health problems (Aouicha et al., 2022). By applying confidence, perseverance, and contextual perspectives, operating room nurses are able to select evidence-based practice that can effectively alleviate surgical patients’ pain based on their health problems.
The appropriate choice of evidence-based practices to inform clinical practices requires inquisitiveness, creativity, and flexibility. The reason is that nurses encounter patients with different needs that can best be addressed using different interventions (Falcó-Pegueroles et al., 2021). For example, an operating room nurse might handle a patient who has developed urinary incontinence following a surgical operation on reproductive organs. To be able to select the right evidence-based practice to address the patient’s needs, an operating room nurse must remain inquisitive, flexible, and creative when exploring published evidence. Moreover, nurses are able to select the right evidence-based interventions for their patients when they are aware of their roles (intuitiveness), open-minded, truthful (apply intellectual integrity), and can engage in reflection (Rubenfeld, 2014). These elements guide nurses to choose and implement evidence-based interventions that adhere to appropriate ethical and legal requirements. For example, operating room nurses utilize these dimensions to ensure adherence to the ethical and legal requirements specific to their role (Aouicha et al., 2022). Generally, the 10 habits of the mind ensure that nurses can appropriately use their minds to solve patients’ problems.
Nurses use their cognitive skills to reason properly when handling patients. Some of the ways through which nurses demonstrate their cognitive abilities in critical thinking include information seeking, analyzing key issues, discriminating ideas, and transforming knowledge (Rubenfeld, 2014; Van & Liu, 2021). For example, an operating room nurse must seek relevant information from reliable sources to inform practice. They must analyze key issues in those studies, discriminate bad from good information, and utilize the right data to transform knowledge. This ensures that the care given to nurses is informed by reliable data thereby promoting patient safety and quality (Aouicha et al., 2022). Safety and quality improvement are among the competencies that nurses are expected to possess because their application in practice promotes patients’ well-being and quality of life. Operating room nurses must display the cognitive skills named above when selecting appropriate interventions to provide quality and safe care.
The other cognitive skills that nurses need to display when using evidence-based practices to improve quality and safety in nursing care include the application of standards, logical reasoning, and predicting. Professional nursing standards define the behaviors of nurses as they perform their caring roles (Rubenfeld, 2014). Operating room nurses must demonstrate their abilities to display specialty-specific standards, utilize logical reasoning to identify the best evidence for each patient case, and predict the possible outcomes of the chosen evidence-based interventions on patient outcomes (Aouicha et al., 2022). Contemporary nurses need to understand how displaying various critical thinking dimensions guide them to effectively use evidence-based practice to improve healthcare quality and safety in clinical practice.
References
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Falcó-Pegueroles, A., Rodríguez-Martín, D., Ramos-Pozón, S., & Zuriguel-Pérez, E. (2021). Critical thinking in nursing clinical practice, education and research: From attitudes to virtue. Nursing Philosophy: An International Journal for Healthcare Professionals, 22(1), e12332. https://doi.org/10.1111/nup.12332.
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