Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Personal attributes
Self awareness, motivation, leadership
Knowledge base
Educational foundation
Blended competencies
Cognitive, technical, interpersonal, ethical, and legal
skills
Critical Thinking
Blended Competencies
QSEN Competencies
Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN)
Knowledge, skills, and attitudes (KSA)
Person-centered care
Teamwork and collaboration
Evidence-based practice
Quality improvement
Safety
Informatics
Problem Solving
Trial-and-error problem solving
Testing various interventions
Scientific problem solving
Organized method of research
Intuitive problem solving
Based on knowledge and skills of an idividual
Critical thinking: intuitive, logical, or both?
Potential errors in decision making may include:
Bias
Failure to consider the total situation
Impatience
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Patient
Scientifically based, holistic individualized patient care
Continuity of care
Clear, efficient, cost-effective plan of action
Nurse
Opportunity to work collaboratively with other health
care workers
Satisfaction of making a difference in lives of patients
Opportunity to grow professionally
Reflective Practice
Reflection in action
Happens in the here and now of the activity and is
also known as thinking on your feet.
Reflection on action
Occurs after the fact and involves thinking through a
situation that has occurred in the past.
Reflection for action
Helps the person to think about how future actions
might change as a result of the reflection.