Critical thinking is an important part of the nursing process, and to acquire clinical decision-making skills, one must have the necessary learning experience. One’s clinical experience is a tool for testing nursing knowledge, and with experience, one will gradually understand clinical situations. I apply critical thinking skills in evaluating and identifying the patients’ behavior, and intervening before they become physically or verbally violent. When patients become verbally abusive to staff, I try my best to de-escalate their actions, but the mental health technicians always feel the best way to solve problems with psychotic patients is to give them an intramuscular medication to make them sleep. In this situation, I must use my critical …show more content…
I am more confident and courageous anytime I speak or deal with a patient. Critical thinking has helped me to improve my clinical competency. “The currently accepted five levels of development within the Novice to Expert theoretical model as presented by, Benner (1984) start from the bottom stage at the Novice level and move upward through Advanced Beginner, Competent, Proficient, and Expert levels”. Kaminski (2010). For a nurse to attain the level of being an expert nurse, he must be clinically competent and have critical thinking skill. Critical thinkers in nursing practice the cognitive abilities to analyze, applying standards, discriminating, information seeking, logical reasoning, predicting, and transforming knowledge. (Scheffer & Rubenfeld, p. 357).
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