Critical Thinking in Home Health Nursing: Skills to Assess, Analyze, and Act

Classroom strategies to teach, promote, and support the development of critical thinking.

Critical Thinking in Home Health Nursing: Skills to Assess, Analyze, and Act

Shelley Cohen, RN, MSN, CEN
Alison Basmajian, RN, MSN
Polly Gerber Zimmermann, RN, MS, MBA, CEN, FAEN

This book explains how to teach critical thinking, how to train for it during orientation and how to apply it to the home health setting. Includes relevant, concrete information for the development and tuning of critical thinking skills for the new graduate and the experienced nurse. This resource also addresses the experienced nurse, as this is often the home health nurse while offering dozens of tools to help with the implementation effort.

This book will help you:

Describe the characteristics of the home health setting that require good critical-thinking skills
Identify key aspects of critical thinking
Explain how nurses develop competency in critical thinking
Determine classroom strategies to teach, promote, and support the development of critical thinking

About the Authors

Shelley Cohen, RN, MSN, CEN, is the founder of Health Resources Unlimited, a Tennessee-based education and consulting company that focuses on teaching triage, new managers, and critical thinking concepts. As the author/co-author of 18 books and more than 50 published articles, Cohen coaches and mentor’s nurses from the level of novice to expert. For more than 40 years she has held a variety of roles as both a staff nurse and nurse leader.

Alison Basmajian, RN, MSN, has worked in home health for more than 30 years. She currently works at VNA of Boston and Home Health VNA, Lawrence, MA.

Polly Gerber Zimmermann, RN, MS, MBA, CEN, FAEN, has experience in staff and management medical-surgical and emergency nursing. She is an associate professor in the Chicago City Colleges School of Nursing-Malcolm X Campus. She is a frequent author on nursing topics including critical thinking.

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