 | Make critical thinking part of your agency's culture.
Many home health nurses come with a lack of critical thinking experience, rather playing a more independent case manager role.
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Critical Thinking in Home Health: Skills to Assess, Analyze, and Act explains how to teach critical thinking, how to train for it during orientation and how to apply it to the home health setting.
Using relevant, concrete information for the development and fine-tuning of critical thinking skills for the new graduate and the experienced nurse, 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
- Determine ways to evaluate nurses’ progress in critical thinking throughout orientation
- Develop strategies for the development of critical-thinking skills during the orientation process
- Discuss the role played by managers and educators in promoting environments that support critical thinking
- Analyze the challenges that both new and experienced nurses face in the incorporation of critical-thinking skills in the practice setting
- Explain interventions to help both new and experienced nurses meet their managers ‘and preceptors’ expectations for critical thinking
- Apply critical thinking to nursing documentation
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