Health science educators share successful teaching strategies for training critical thinking and clinical reasoning in the classroom and in the clinic. This teaching anthology offers more than 25 thoughtful examples to guide the effective training of clinical reasoning skills. The contributing authors show how to use problem-based learning, clinical cases, think-aloud, reflective role-play, team problem-solving, reflective journaling and many other approaches to engage students in the critical thinking skills of interpretation, analysis, inference, evaluation, explanation, and meta-cognition. These active learning pedagogies foster and sustain positive critical thinking habits of mind such as truth-seeking, inquisitiveness, open-mindedness, systematicity, maturity of judgment, and confidence in reasoning. The positive effects of these approaches register both as observable cognitive behaviors in the course of clinical decision making and as significant improvements in students reasoning test scores. All the authors are published researchers who have achieved teaching excellence in the area of clinical reasoning. They represent all professional levels and academic ranks, and work in pre-service and in-service clinical and academic settings on four continents. Whether their teaching is on-line or face-to-face, they demonstrate the effectiveness of their approaches for building critical thinking skills and habits of mind in the context of authentic clinical problems.Price: $49.95
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The operating room (OR) is a complex, fast-moving environment, requiring nurses to display their specialized skills across the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative setting. Raise the standard of your OR nurses professional nursing practice and teach clinical care providers how to function at a higher level by developing your nursescritical thinking abilities. Build confidence and competence through critical thinking Critical Thinking in the Operating Room: Skills to Assess, Analyze, and Act 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 for new graduate nurses and experienced nurses to develop critical thinking skills, including successful classroom processes and learning strategies. It includes learning strategies, worksheets, and handouts to supplement the classroom learning. Critical Thinking in the Operating Room: Skills to Assess, Analyze, and Act 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. 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. You also get a CD with all the books valuable and completely customizable resources such as operating room -specific assessment tools, worksheets, and sample questions.
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Univetica's Practical Approach to Critical Thinking takes observation and questioning to new heights. Throughout intellectual history, critical thinking has been defined and prescribed in various and, at times, confusing ways. This curriculum is based on a fresh, innovative approach that combines practical critical thinking (Think) and experiential learning processes (Do) to allow for individual and global progress (Thrive) Think. Do. Thrive.
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My enthusiasm for this book is fired by a number of factors. First, there is the variety of authors and topics. Second the variety of topics reflects key points in our social, cultural, economic and political context. Third, there is a crying need for up-to-date books that relate the whole gospel to the whole world. Fourth, the book does not aim to indoctrinate us, but rather challenge us to become thinking Christians in our own contexts. And while Christian readers of all denominations will be challenged and enriched by this book, a fifth reason for my enthusiasm is that it gives contemporary expression to the spirit of John Wesley. Not only were his interests wide ranging, as are the topics in this book, but he managed to develop that rare and precious mix of a theology that is simultaneously passion and reasonable, both deeply spiritual and socially engaged. That is the excellent mix that this book offers. (Prof Neville Richardson) Topics covered: Environmental ethics, Postmodernism, emergent Church, Wesleyan theology, mission, gender issues, same sex, homosexuality, Biblical interpretation, Truth, youth, African theology, Methodism.
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