Critical Thinking is a way to Solve Strategies for Good Problems

Question: How critical thinking is a way to solve strategies for good problems. Answer: In nursing, critical thinking is a way to solve strategies for good problems. This is a complicated, disciplined, and meaningful process with special features that make it different. It involves the needs of the patient and nurse has to understand this. This thinking makes the nurses to constantly evaluate, redirect, and improve the increased efficiencies. Critical thinking includes cognitive skills and mind habits. It also understands prioritization. This term is very important bin the field of nursing because it helps them to think beyond the memorizing studies and react to the practical situation (Chan 2013). Problem solving is defined as the mental activity in which the problems of the unsteady stage are identified. The role of the nurse is to gather the clarification of the problems and accordingly give solutions to it. The nurse has to evaluate all the solutions carefully and has to choose the best one for implementation. The nurse monitors the situation all the time to make sure that he initial and the final efforts reach to the client effectively. This does not mean that the nurse throws away other solution, but she keeps them in reserve if the first solution does not work out. In actual problem solving refers to the nurse's knowledge and body language that how she can solve the situations. The approaches for problem solving include intuition, trail, and error and the research procedures (Coben and Weeks 2014). Description: I am the head nurse for 54 beds in the unit of orthopedic of a general hospital. During the peak season there is often an overflow of the patients in the unit, and sometimes the set up has to be done in the hall and auditorium. Depending on the severity of the injuries of the patients like someone has got fractures in their tibia or femur bone or some having the muscle contraction they are to be allocated, and this decision is taken by the head nurse according to the nursing policies. This is the situation where the head nurse ha to tackle the situation by adopting problem solving method as where and how to allocate the patients so that all the patients get the equal care and attention. Being the head nurse, I had to make communications with the patients as well as the staff to solve the problems faced by the patients. Feelings: Being the head nurse, I had to give the best quality of the nursing facilities and care to keep in mind the situations of both the patients and staff team. I had to check through all the problems of the patients and the staff issues. I had to give the best of medications by stocking all the medicines in advance so that the patients do not have to bear the pain due the shortage of any types of medications or equipments. Evaluation: When such a situation arose where there were a huge number of patients and less of space staffs to look after them then I had to tackle the situation wisely. I had to observe the intervention results, which were given to them, and on the same side, I had to see the staffs behavior towards the patients also. The good thing about this situation was the caring of the more and more patients and nursing them, and the bad outcome of this situation was that many patients were from different background and created a ruckus if there was delayed in some medications or treatment. Analysis: I had to push myself through all the situations to have access to the patients to understand their problem. I had to check all the treatment and the medications provided to them. I had to check the patients record and if urgency had to report to the doctor team. Conclusion: If the situation demanded then I would arrange for more bed and space for the patients so that they do not have to face problems. Action plan: If such situations arose then I would keep all the medications and treatment ready before hand whatever is required and also would increase the staff team so that each patient is given the proper care and treated with special amenities. References: Chan, Z.C., 2013. A systematic review of critical thinking in nursing education.Nurse Education Today,33(3), pp.236-240. Coben, D. and Weeks, K., 2014. Meeting the mathematical demands of the safety-critical workplace: medication dosage calculation problem-solving for nursing.Educational Studies in Mathematics,86(2), pp.253-270.