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 (Operating room Nurse) that would describe your rationale of the behaviors that a patient or significant other may exhibit when using those critical thinking skills.
* I am an operating room nurse. Please detail my paper around that.
* Please use APA 7
* Use peer reviewed scholarly journals and my book, which has been uploaded. All have to be within 5 years
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The best type of care for every patient is that which adequately addresses their physical, socio-economic, cultural, spiritual, and emotional needs. The essence of patient-centered care is to provide compassionate care that places a patient’s preferences, values, beliefs, and needs into consideration (QSEN, 2022). The nurse needs critical thinking skills to be able to provide patient-centered care to patients. In delivering patient-centered care, nurses also assist the patient and significant others with their own critical thinking skills to achieve health literacy (Rubenfeld, 2014). Out of the 7 critical thinking skills applicable to nursing, the 2 skills that are most often used by patients and significant others when diagnosed with a critical acute illness are ‘analyzing’ and ‘information seeking’ (University of Michigan, n.d.). This discussion will explore how patients and significant others apply these two skills when diagnosed with a critical acute illness that requires an operation.
Analyzing
Being informed about a diagnosis of a critical acute illness can cause confusion not only to the patient but also to significant others. When communicating a diagnosis to a patient, the doctor or healthcare provider usually informs the patient about the condition, its signs and symptoms, and the associated risk factors. It is during this time that the patient and significant others apply the ‘analyzing’ skill aspect of critical thinking, trying to establish the relationship between potential exposures and the disease. Analyzing, as a critical thinking skill, entails separating an issue into its component functional parts with the aim of understanding how they relate to making a whole (University of Michigan, n.d.). Understanding how one’s behaviors or potential exposures are related to a disease is an important aspect of health literacy.
Information Seeking
Following a diagnosis, patients and significant others usually seek information in order to understand their conditions better and find out whether the recommended interventions will generate any positive health outcomes. According to Lee et al. (2021), the type of information that a patient will seek from any source is often determined by his or her level of health literacy. Information seeking, as a critical thinking skill, enables a person to look for evidence from relevant sources regarding a particular issue of interest (University of Michigan, n.d.). Many patients view doctors, nurses, and other healthcare providers as relevant sources of health-related information. In this regard, they will always turn to their healthcare providers whenever they have any questions or concerns related to their diagnoses.
A good example from operating room nursing practice of how patients and significant others use the ‘analyzing’ and ‘information seeking’ skills is when an adult female diabetic patient has been diagnosed with acute cholecystitis that requires urgent surgery. Sharp pain in the upper right quadrant of the abdomen is the primary symptom of acute cholecystitis. Some of the risk factors for the condition include; being female, pregnancy, diabetes, obesity, old age, and hormone therapy use (Serban et al., 2021). When informed about the presence of acute cholecystitis, the patient and significant others analyze the presenting symptoms against the ones communicated to them by the healthcare provider in order to establish whether they are matching or not. This analysis also enables them to determine whether the patient is positive for any of the risk factors presented. Besides, the patient and significant others will use the ‘information seeking’ skill to interrogate the healthcare provider about the chosen intervention and even try to know whether there are alternative approaches that can be considered instead of surgery. To enhance health literacy in this situation, the operating room nurse should assist the patient and significant others through the analysis and information-seeking processes before the operation is done.
References
Lee, H. Y., Jin, S. W., Henning-Smith, C., Lee, J., & Lee, J. (2021). Role of health literacy in health-related information-seeking behavior online: cross-sectional study. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 23(1), e14088. https://doi.org/10.2196/14088 References
Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN). (2022). QSEN competencies. https://qsen.org/competencies/pre-licensure-ksas/
Rubenfeld, M. G. (2014). Critical Thinking TACTICS for Nurses (3rd ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning. https://coloradotech.vitalsource.com/books/9781284059571.
Serban, D., Balasescu, S. A., Alius, C., Balalau, C., Sabau, A. D., Badiu, C. D., Socea, B., Trotea, A. M., Dascalu, A. M., Motofei, I., Ardeleanu, V., Spataru, R. I., Sabau, D., & Smarandache, G. C. (2021). Clinical and therapeutic features of acute cholecystitis in diabetic patients. Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine, 22(1), 758. https://doi.org/10.3892/etm.2021.10190