CRITICAL THINKING FOR HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS

Critical Thinking for Health Care Professionals: Language and Logic

Critical Thinking for Health Care Professionals: Language and Logic

Lives depend on competent clinical reasoning. Knowing that this is the agreement owed to the public trust, agencies responsible for the accreditation of professional training programs and for the oversight of health care delivery have mandated the demonstration of competent clinical reasoning. Although at one time we may have believed that the unreflective accumulation of experience would naturally lead to better clinical reasoning and critical thinking, we have learned that without a direct focus on the critical thinking processes used ...