Influencing Patient Care
Complete the Critical Thinking 1-2 Exercise from Chapter 1 on your own. See below
“Consider your last clinical experience. How much was your practice based on scientific research? What other sources of evidence did you use? Divide a circle into sections (like a pie chart) to show how much influence each of the sources of evidence had on the patient care you provided.”
Then, expand the Critical Thinking Exercise 1-2 to consider your last clinical experience
1. Identify strategies to increase the section of the circle that represents the amount of influence that scientific research has on the patient care clinical experience that you selected for the critical thinking exercise? Strategy examples might include: find and read nursing research studies, peer-reviewed journal sources, and practice guidelines from specialty nursing/medical organizations, etc.
2. How will that scientific research affect your patient care?
3. How do you plan to share information with classmates and staff nurses?