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Introduction ATI products help build your critical thinking skills using the ATI Helix of Success. The ATI Helix of Success is a model developed to illustrate how knowledge and clinical judgment for... m the basis for nursing practice. It provides you with strategies you can use when answering test items and giving client care. The Critical Thinking Guide presents the essential elements of the ATI Helix of Success. Make a selection to begin improving your critical thinking skills. Knowledge/Clinical Judgment Knowledge Nursing knowledge is the acquisition of facts and principles based on evidence and are considered to be the foundation of reasoned action. There is no substitute for nursing knowledge when answering test items and providing client care. Acquisition of knowledge occurs in the classroom, online, in clinical, and in response to various other learning activities. There are two levels of thinking in relation to using nursing knowledge – foundational and critical thinking. Foundational Thinking • Foundational thinking is the ability to recall and comprehend information and concepts foundational to quality nursing practice. Recalling information involves being able to retrieve previously learned knowledge. Comprehending knowledge involves being able to understand the knowledge retrieved and verbalize or use it in some manner. “Understanding” is another term for comprehension. Critical Thinking • Critical thinking is the term given to the thinking skills used when analyzing client issues and problems. These thinking skills include interpretation, analysis, evaluation, inference and explanation. They are used to facilitate a critical analysis of the client problem or issue and subsequently determine the most appropriate action to take. Clinical Judgement Clinical judgment is the decision made regarding the course of action to be taken and is based upon a critical reflection of data when nursing knowledge is applied to a clinical situation. Your ability to make sound clinical judgments will help ensure that your nursing care is safe, high in quality, and clientcentered. The use of the clinical decision-making process will help you analyze data and use your nursing knowledge to make sound clinical judgments. Clinical decision-making process The clinical decision-making process helps walk you through an organized analysis of a client issue or problem and select an appropriate action to take in regard to its resolution. The steps of this process include: 1. Identifying that a client issue or problem exists. 2. Analyzing and interpreting relevant data. 3. Making inferences based on this interpretation. 4. Listing all possible actions that could be taken. 5. Evaluating each action. 6. Selecting the best action.Clinical reasoning Clinical reasoning is the mental process used when analyzing all the elements of a clinical situation and making a decision based on that analysis. Clinical reasoning supports the clinical decision making process by: 1. Guiding the nurse through the process of assessing and compiling data. 2. Selecting and discarding various bits of data based on their relevance. 3. Making decision regarding client care based on nursing knowledge. Priority Setting Frameworks Priority setting is the ability to use nursing judgment when making decisions about the rank order in which nursing actions should be taken. Priority-setting frameworks assist you to make decisions regarding priority findings, priority nursing actions, and the proper sequence of nursing actions. The ATI Helix of Success supports seven priority-setting frameworks that can be followed when using the clinical decision-making process to make a clinical judgment. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs There are five levels of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs – physiological, safety and security, love and belonging, self-esteem, and selfactualization. In theory, the highest priority needs are those necessary for survival and make up the foundation of the triangle. While this is usually the case, higher levels of the pyramid may compete with those at the foundation depending on the specific client situation Nursing Process The nursing process is a problem solving process you can use to [Show More]

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