Chapter 10 Focused Study Tips:

1. What are the 4 stages of critical thinking?

2. Describe Maslow’s hierarchy of basic human needs. Why is this concept important to nursing?

3. List the 3 characteristics of critical thinking. What are the skills needed by one who uses critical thinking?

4. List and describe the 3 methods used with critical thinking that is used to problem solve during the nursing process.

5. Why must the nursing process occur in chronological order of assessment, analyzing, planning, implementing, and evaluating?

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