Course Code: REL-ALL-0-HYCTS
Hours: 1.5
Type: Online Course
Content Expiration Date: 12/31/2025
Learning Objectives:
Explain critical thinking and its relevance in healthcare.
Describe critical thinking skills and how to use them.
Identify the steps involved in the critical thinking process.
Identify ways to improve one’s critical thinking.
Outline:
Section 1: Introduction
About This Course
Learning Objectives
Section 2: The Essential Nursing Skill
Importance to Nursing Practice
Origins
Critical Thinking: A Definition for Nursing Practice
Relevance to Healthcare
How Critical Thinking Can Help You
Benefits to Leaders
Review
Summary
Section 3: Critical Thinking Skills
Tools for Critical Thinking
Analysis
Example of Analysis
Inference
Evaluation
Deductive Reasoning
Inductive Reasoning
Review
Summary
Section 4: Critical Thinking Process
The Critical Thinking Process for Nurses
Step 1: Problem Recognition
Changes in Health Status
Anticipating Changes
Identifying Unsafe Practice
Proactive Participation
Step 2: Decision-Making
Decision-Making in Practice
Step 3: Prioritization
A Refresher on Maslow’s
Step 4: Implementation
Step 5: Reflection
Some Questions for Reflection
Debriefing
Knowing What You Do Not Know
Meet Mr. Tyler
Making a Good Decision
Resources for Clinical Decision-Making
Evaluating the Resources
Thinking Downstream
Prioritizing Care
Review
Summary
Section 5: Cultivating Critical Thinking
Sharpen Personal Thinking Competence
Critical Thinking Dispositions
Working as a Team
Practical Ways to Foster Critical Thinking
Socratic Method
Clinical Opportunities
Applying Critical Thinking to Individual Care
Using Critical Thinking for System Change
Review
Summary
Section 6: Conclusion
Course Summary
Course Contributor
References
Congratulations!
Instructor: Jessica Peckham, MSN, RN-BC, CDCES, CCM
Ms. Peckham has over 14 years of experience as a Board-Certified RN and Certified Diabetes Education Specialist, providing patient-centered advocacy and care. She earned her MSN in Global Health and Informatics and completed a post-master’s program at Harvard Medical School in Safety, Quality, Informatics, and Leadership in healthcare. Her clinical expertise includes critical care, ambulatory care, community and home health, long-term care, case management, and clinical quality program management.
As a clinical program manager, Ms. Peckham has implemented quality improvement research programs to enhance continuity of care for patients and families managing complex, chronic conditions. She has been integral in the coordination of population health transition of care programs throughout North Carolina and Massachusetts. Additionally, she has supported the health of migrant farmworkers and created professional development training for improved care and health equity for LGBTQ+ and other underserved populations.
Currently, Ms. Peckham serves as a nurse consultant, providing subject matter expertise in clinical safety and quality. Her work has been published in the Tarheel Nurse journal, and she was recently highlighted in the Harvard Medical School journal. She continues to write in support of the nursing profession. In her free time, she volunteers with the American Red Cross as a Disaster Health Services RN and has been deployed throughout the United States.
Target Audience:
The target audience for this course is: Administration; Nursing Personnel; in the following settings: All Healthcare Facilities.
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To earn continuing education credit for this course you must achieve a passing score of 80% on the post-test and complete the course evaluation.
Course Delivery Method and Format
Asynchronous Distance Learning with interactivity which includes quizzes with questions/answers, and posttests.