Critical Thinking in Long-Term Care Nursing: Skills to Access, Analyze and Act (Cohen, Critical Thinking in Long-Term Care Nursing: Skills to Assess, Analyze, and Ac)

Raise the standard of professional nursing practice and teach clinical care providers how to function at a higher level by teaching and developing nurses' critical thinking abilities.

Critical thinking is essential to nurses' success

The ability to think critically is crucial to resident care, and reducing medical errors. This book provides nurse managers and educators with accessible and easy ways to teach these valuable skills to their staff.

Build confidence and competence through critical thinking

Critical Thinking in Long-Term Care Nursing: Skills to Assess, Analyze and Act, is an easy-to-read resource that explains the principles of critical thinking and how to encourage nurses to use critical thinking methods. This essential book covers how to lead classroom sessions for new graduate nurses and experienced nurses to develop critical thinking skills, including successful classroom processes and learning strategies. It includes learning strategies, and handouts to supplement the classroom.

Critical Thinking in Long-Term Care Nursing is for orientation and beyond, and includes tools and resources for ongoing development.

Benefits for both novice and seasoned professional nurses

Learn how to develop a culture of critical thinking, from coaching new grads through bad resident outcomes to encouraging experienced nurses by setting expectations. You also get a CD-ROM with all the book's valuable and completely customizable resources specifically for long-term care such as assessment tools, worksheets, and sample questions.

Take a look at the Table of Contents . . .

Introduction: Critical thinking in the long-term care setting
1. Defining critical thinking
2. New graduate nurses and critical thinking