NSG495Nursing Capstone

Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 300–500 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. You are required to use 2 scholarly resources, in addition to your textbook. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas. Focus your discussion on the following:

In delivering patient-centered care, nurses also assist the patient and significant others with their own critical thinking skills to achieve health literacy. Consider the following 7 critical thinking skills (University of Michigan, n.d.):

Analyzing

Applying standards

Discriminating

Information seeking

Logical reasoning

Predicting

Transforming knowledge

Complete the following:

Identify the 2 skills that you believe are most often used by patients and their significant others when diagnosed with a critical acute illness.

Provide an example from your clinical practice that would describe your rationale of the behaviors that a patient or significant other may exhibit when using those critical thinking skills.