Help your new graduate nurses gain the critical thinking skills necessary to practice in a complex pediatric environment. The pediatric unit is a complex environment, requiring nurses to display unique skills and abilities yet there is very little literature available for pediatric professionals. With "Critical Thinking in the Pediatric Unit: ""Skills to Assess, Analyze, and Act, "you will raise the standard of professional nursing practice and teach clinical care providers how to function at a higher level by developing ...
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Help your new graduate nurses gain the critical thinking skills necessary to practice in a complex pediatric environment. The pediatric unit is a complex environment, requiring nurses to display unique skills and abilities yet there is very little literature available for pediatric professionals. With "Critical Thinking in the Pediatric Unit: ""Skills to Assess, Analyze, and Act, "you will raise the standard of professional nursing practice and teach clinical care providers how to function at a higher level by developing nurses critical thinking abilities.Build confidence and competence through critical thinking "Critical Thinking in the Pediatric Unit" is a new, easy-to-read resource that explains the principles of critical thinking and how to encourage nurses to use critical thinking methods. This essential book covers how to lead classroom sessions training new graduate nurses and experienced nurses in developing critical thinking skills, including successful classroom processes and learning strategies. It also includes workbooks and handouts to supplement classroom learning.Critical thinking is essential to nurses success The ability to think critically is crucial to patient care and reducing medical errors. This book provides nurse managers and educators with accessible and easy ways to teach these valuable skills to their staff.Benefits for both novice and seasoned professional nurses Learn how to develop a culture of critical thinking, from coaching new grads through bad patient outcomes to encouraging experienced nurses by setting expectations. "Critical Thinking in the Pediatric Unit" provides strategies for managers and nurse educators to use in developing critical thinking skills during orientation and beyond and includes tools and resources for ongoing development. You also get a CD-ROM containing all the book s valuable and completely customizable resources such as pediatric unit-specific assessment tools case studies worksheets sample questions "Critical Thinking in the Pediatric Unit: Skills to Assess, Analyze, and Act" is a must-have for: chief nursing officers directors of nursing nurse managers nurse educators Take a look at the Table of Contents Introduction: Critical thinking in the pediatric unit Chapter 1: Defining critical thinking Chapter 2: New graduate nurses and critical thinking Chapter 3: The critical thinking classroom Chapter 4: Orientation: Bringing critical thinking to the clinical environment Chapter 5: Nursing practice that promotes and motivates critical thinking Chapter 6: Novice to expert: Setting realistic expectations for critical thinking Chapter 7: Applying critical thinking to nursing documentation Chapter 8: Relating critical thinking to its higher purpose Chapter 9: Resources and toolsLearning Objectives Describe the characteristics of the pediatric unit that require good critical-thinking skills. Identify the key aspects of critical thinking and how nurses develop competency. Analyze the factors that contribute to new graduates lack of critical thinking and strategies to counteract this. Utilize the classroom environment to teach, promote, and support the development of critical thinking. Identify ways to incorporate critical thinking development into orientation programs and ways to evaluate nurses progress. Discuss the role played by managers and educators in promoting environments that support critical thinking. Evaluate the challenges facing new and experienced nurses in incorporating critical thinking skills into practice and strategies to help meet expectations. Apply critical thinking to nursing documentation. "Faculty disclosure: Shelley Cohen, Polly Gerber Zimmerman, and June Marshall have declared that they have no commercial/financial vested interest in t
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