Strategies, Techniques, and Approaches to Thinking

This easy-to-use workbook presents case studies and interactive activities based upon common medical-surgical situations to facilitate the development of critical thinking skills. Section One builds readers' fundamental knowledge base and reinforces nursing concepts and principles. Case studies demonstrate how each skill is applied in clinical practice. Section Two integrates learned knowledge with the nursing process tradition and applies it to critical thinking. It explores standard medical-surgical situations with patients under stable conditions. Section Three guides readers through the application, analysis, and synthesis of knowledge in complex clinical situations.