...of Phoenix Material Questions for Critical Thinking Caps Worksheet Read the description of the six caps and the “Case Study for Six Caps” on p. 175 of Professional Nursing. Answer the following questions individually. Then, discuss your answers in your Learning Team forum online. After you have discussed each question and achieved a consensus, compile a group response, which will be submitted as a Learning Team assignment. White cap: Rachel Skidmore What pieces of information are needed to assist the family in making a decision regarding Marianne’s care? In order for the family of Marianne to make an informed decision certain information is needed. The medical staff needs to review the current prognosis without surgery. What type of treatment or surgery is possible along with the risks, benefits, and recovery required. The staff needs to review if any discussion has occurred in the family with Marianne in the past regarding advance directive wishes even though no formal advance directives have been made. Patient rights need to be reviewed and written copy provided to family. Information on DNR, full code, to allow or when to stop ventilation, and if artificial feedings to be started are a few of the topics that the family needs to have information reviewed to make an informed decision on the care of Marianne. Grief is a natural process that is individual process to each person and the staff needs to allow for the various stages. Red cap: Shirley Palotai How might family...
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...Critical Thinking Caps Worksheet Angela Martin, Bridget Frey, Heidi Abraham, Jennifer Shaver, Natalie Amenhauser, Nicole Hale (Team B) NUR/391 Professional Nursing Practice April 14, 2014 Sharon Little-Stoetzel University of Phoenix Material Questions for Critical Thinking Caps Worksheet Read the description of the six caps and the “Case Study for Six Caps” on p. 175 of Professional Nursing. Answer the following questions individually. Then, discuss your answers in your Learning Team forum online. After you have discussed each question and achieved a consensus, compile a group response, which will be submitted as a Learning Team assignment. White cap: What pieces of information are needed to assist the family in making a decision regarding Marianne’s care? The information provided explains that Marianne, 79, was admitted to the emergency department yesterday with a sever headache. She became unresponsive and a CT scan of her brain revealed she had a hemorrhagic stroke. Her pupils are dilated and unresponsive to light. She is breathing only with a respirator. The piece of information to assist the family in decision-making is the fact that her pupils are dilated and she is unresponsive breathing only with a respirator device. The surgeon cannot guarantee quality of life even with the clot removed (Black, p. 175, 2010). We know that Marianne’s children and husband are involved in the decision making regarding her care and have differing...
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...Six Caps Case Study University of Phoenix Undergraduate Nursing Studies Introduction In the words of Albert Einstein, “the world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” Today more and more nurses have to change their thinking process to ensure clients receive quality care. Therefore, clinical judgments cannot be based on speculation but on outcome, directed thinking. As the client health status changes, the nurse must be able recognize, assess, and evaluate all the presenting information to make an outcome decision that is best for the client and client’s family. To make appropriate decisions require nurses to put on their thinking caps. Edward de Bono’s six thinking caps integrates knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, and evaluation allowing the nurse to make quality, outcome based decision. The purpose of this paper will focus on a case study using six thinking caps to critically analyze and make clinical decisions in promoting client safety and quality care. White Cap Thinking Looking at the case study with the White, Ms. Marianne first presented with a severe headache. The nurse uses her knowledge base about hemorrhagic stroke to decide what additional information is needed. Since information cannot be obtained from the patient, the nurse ask the patient’s family questions about the patient’s health problems, family health problems, medical history, medication regimen...
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...contains convincing arguments and is supported with evidence. √ Critical Reading. Students read to inquire, learn, think, and communicate. Student writing demonstrates understandings of assigned readings, and when requested, incorporates outside readings. √ Rhetorical Knowledge. Student writing meaningfully engages with writing, language, and/or rhetoric-related topics. √ Research. Student writing evidences understandings of citation and website validity, and avoids plagiarism. At the intermediate level, student writing integrates credible academic research. √ Technology & Multimodality. Students function in electronic writing spaces, and use technology to compose, revise, and present their writing. At the intermediate level, students analyze and/or produce visual, audio, and online texts, while must be 400-500 words long. This section of the “letter” will be 4 paragraphs. |Excellent (4) |Satisfactory (3) |Unsatisfactory (1) | |Examination of critical reading and writing |Although the reflection does reveal that |The reflection does not show that the student has| |The reflection shows thoughtful examination of |the student has thought about his/her own |thought critically about his/her own reading and | |the student’s critical reading and writing. |critical reading and writing, the |writing throughout the...
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...success comes from applying practical skills and where thinking is used mostly to solve practical problems. I am also likely to be attracted to very practical jobs and careers. The personal ethical lens direct me academic behavior because I’m a person who likes putting my personal course of action on paper it is a good guide to show me that I am on the right track with my likes and dislikes. I valve the social that is achieved through loyalty and consistency in dealings among people in my circle. As far as my role in academic behavior believe it or not ethics plays an important part in the critical thinking process. Ethics are literally morals that people hold in even when no one watching us. It also influence the way you will think on a subject depending on what you believe. In decision making your personal ethics prevent you from making a ‘the end justifies the means ‘type of things, regardless of having a good alternative. My results of my career plan building activity involved responding to a series of questions to a related to identifying competencies, the ideal work environment, and reasoning aptitude. The most recent activity dealt with the reasoning. On the understanding of my results, I fell in the medium profile manage indicating I am best suited for careers that use both cognitive abilities and practical skills. The results revealed that my individual thinking styles canters on logical and practical thinking, which I find myself using most of time instead of other...
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...The Differences In Competences Between Nurses Prepared At Associate Level And Baccalaureate Degree. Grand Canyon University: <NRS430V> <1/29/15> The title is no longer in the header after page one but is centered here but not in all caps. Baccalaureate degree program and associate degree program is both educational pathways for registered nurse licensure. There are several differences in nurses prepared at associate degree level versus the baccalaureate degree level in nursing. Some of these differences include but are not limited to limited to the following, curriculum, education, and patients care. You need a clear purpose statement in your introduction that tells the reader what the paper is about. There are distinct differences between the 72 AND credits 125 BSN credits required in each of the nursing programs’ curriculum. The baccalaureate curriculum has a different focus, emphasizing evidenced-based, clinical practice and leadership. Additional courses are offered in BSN curriculum, such as research, statistics, critical thinking, and public health/community health. In addition, the additional units prepare the BSN nurse to pursue graduate study, leading to an advanced degree in nursing (AACN 2008). One might think, “Well I want to be a bedside nurse and not a manager”. The BSN nurse can and does provide excellent direct patient care. In fact research shows they use evidence-based...
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...observation and experience which are influenced by culture, race, religion, and family. Values involve thought, knowledge, and emotion; and vary between one another. With this in mind, it can be difficult to when making an ethical decision. Everyone’s values differ, therefore the nurse needs to be open-minded and not base their decision on their own beliefs and values. In the case study for the six caps, personal values do interfere with ethical decision making. Marian, a 79 year old with a hemorrhagic stroke who needs to have surgery knowing she may not recover function and both the husband and the children have different values of what should be done in this situation (Black & Chitty, 2011). Does the husband go along with the surgery and hope that things turn out the way he wants it to, or do the children get involved and help the father to recognize what would be best for their mother and doing what they believe is right for her? Both the husband and the children think they know what’s best for their wife/mother, but what is the ethical thing to do? In the critical thinking exercise, I believe personal and society values are influenced. Three years ago, when the nurse was acting negligent and being the nurse to witness it brings in my own values in play. First of all that nurse was violating standards of nursing care, but what where the standards she was violating? These standards are the healthcare institution’s standards of care and she needed to abide by them and didn’t...
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...Business Brief Portal Corporation has two plants located in Utah, one in Ogden and the other in Sandy. The company produces laser printers. (Datar & Schoenebeck, 2014, p. 111) Currently, the company is operating under normal capacity at a rate of 240 days annually. In 2012, Portal Corporation is forecasting to produce 120,000 units of laser printers which will exceed the company’s normal production usage capacity to 300 days per year. This will require the company to pay overtime for their workers thus it will increase the variable costs per unit for Ogden by $5.00 per unit and Sandy by $10.00 per unit. The question here is how we spread the 120,000 units between Ogden and Sandy? Analysis When looking at the income statement of both locations, we found that Sandy is more profitable than Ogden. Sandy which has $1,872,000.00 appears to have less fixed costs than Ogden at $4,200,000.00. Therefore, the breakeven point for Sandy is the point that there is no profit or loss is 9,600 units comparing to Ogden of 20,000 units. In essence, Ogden has to produce more units than Sandy in order to breakeven. Fixed Costs are irrelevant when deciding which plant to reach maximum production capacity but, the contribution margin per unit analysis indicates that Ogden is more profitable than Sandy. This has happened because Ogden’s variable costs per unit are $110 whereas Sandy’s is at $125. Also, additional cost per unit for Ogden is only $5.00 and Sandy’s is $10.00 per...
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...The Ohio State University Autumn 2010 Economics 201 – Principles of Macroeconomics TR 2:00 – 3:18, 100 Independence Hall Please do not make travel plans that conflict with final exam date and time. Alternative arrangements are extremely difficult FINAL EXAM: Thursday, December 9, 1:30, Same Place as Lecture MIDTERM 1: Thursday, October 7, 2:00, Same Place as Lecture MIDTERM 2: Tuesday, October 26, 2:00, Same Place as Lecture MIDTERM 3: Tuesday, November 16, 2:00, Same Place as Lecture Textbook: Required: Principles of Microeconomics, 18e, McConnell, McGraw-Hill, ISBN: 0077354230 (or loose leaf - cheaper: 00773441678). Study Guide: Highly recommend student study guide: 0077341678. Instructor: Alan Osman, 411 Arps Hall, Phone: 247-0092, E-mail: osman.1@osu.edu Instructor Resume: Brief resume on Carmen Instructor SEI: Student Evaluation of Instruction for various courses taught by the instructor, 2007-2010, available on Carmen Office Hours: TR: 4:00-5:00 (no appointment needed), other times by appointment. Communicating With the Instructor: In this day of instant communication, the urge to communicate with the instructor at any time of day or night and expect an immediate response is very tempting. Please note that if the information you seek by emailing this instructor is available on this syllabus, on Carmen, or was provided in class, or available from the course TA, the inquiry may not receive priority, if at...
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...interactive process in which the reader actively produces meaning through a set of mental processes. There is obviously an ongoing interaction between the reader and the text. Critical reading is related to thinking and that is why we cannot read without thinking. Critical reading involves the following skills: predicting, acknowledging, comparing, evaluating and decision-making. Schemata can be seen as the organized background knowledge, which leads the reader to expect and predict aspects in their interpretation of discourse. Keywords: Interactive, Critical, Reading, Thinking, Skills, Interpretation, Discourse Introduction Reading is a sophisticated activity, which includes psychological, linguistic, and sociological aspects. It is an interactive process between a reader and text. The process of reading involves constructing meaning among the parts of the text and between the text and readers' personal experience. The reader takes the text and gives it meaning. Both reader and writer use background knowledge to construct a text. Carrel (1987) talks about reading as an interactive process between the reader and the text. Meaning does not just reside in the text; it is rather constructed out of the interaction between a reader's background knowledge and what is in the text. Schemata and critical thinking perform an elaborative function in comprehension when we use our knowledge to make inference. While reading a text readers fill in gaps either in things they do not comprehend...
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...ISSUES IN ACCOUNTING EDUCATION Vol. 28, No. 4 2013 pp. 983–1007 American Accounting Association DOI: 10.2308/iace-50497 Second Round Electronics: A Case for Critical Thinking Nathalie Johnstone, Brandy Mackintosh, and Fred Phillips ABSTRACT: This instructional case requires students to provide advice to a client who is currently the sole owner of a for-profit company that reconditions and sells used electronics. The client is considering purchasing a similar company with the vision of expanding into the sales and service of emerging technologies. The target company’s unaudited financial statements contain questionable accounting choices and judgments that appear to enable the company to meet external financial reporting constraints. In their role as financial advisers, students are expected to use critical thinking skills to identify and evaluate questionable choices in the target company’s financial statements. This case is suitable for use in introductory and intermediate financial accounting as well as introductory auditing and assurance courses, and can be used as a context for inclass discussion, as a basis for exam questions, and/or as a writing assignment. Assessment rubrics and Teaching Notes accompany the case for use by instructors. Keywords: financial accounting; policy choices; loan covenants; ratio analysis. THE CASE econd Round Electronics (SRE) is a privately owned company that reconditions and sells used consumer electronics. Its product offerings include...
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...United States by LearningExpress, LLC, New York. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data: 501 challenging logic & reasoning problems. p. cm.—(LearningExpress skill builders practice) Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 1-57685-534-1 1. Logic—Problems, exercises, etc. 2. Reasoning—Problems, exercises, etc. 3. Critical thinking—Problems, exercises, etc. I. LearningExpress (Organization) II. Title: 501 challenging logic and reasoning problems. III. Series. BC108.A15 2006 160'.76—dc22 2005057953 Printed in the United States of America 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Second Edition ISBN 1-57685-534-1 For information or to place an order, contact LearningExpress at: 55 Broadway 8th Floor New York, NY 10006 Or visit us at: www.learnatest.com Contents INTRODUCTION QUESTIONS ANSWERS vii 1 99 v Introduction his book—which can be used alone, with other logic and reasoning texts of your choice, or in combination with LearningExpress’s Reasoning Skills Success in 20 Minutes a Day—will give you practice dealing with the types of multiple-choice questions that appear on standardized tests assessing logic, reasoning, judgment, and critical thinking. It is designed to be used by individuals working on their own and by teachers or tutors helping students learn, review, or practice basic logic and reasoning skills. Practice on 501 logic and reasoning questions will go a long way in alleviating test anxiety, too! Maybe you’re one of the millions of people who, as students in...
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...Halpern's framework for critical thinking. Reviewed below. B. Know the names of the eight activities (each has an alternate term, but just need to know the main ones on the picture), and be able to match up descriptions of these activities with the correct name. SEE YOUR HANDOUT. C. Know the steps in the paramedic method, and be prepared to apply them to a problem sentence. Steps given below. Diana Halpern's (1996) Framework for Critical Thinking Definition: Critical thinking is the use of cognitive skills or strategies that increase the probability of a good outcome. CT is purposeful, reasoned, and goal-directed. Answer the following questions: 1. What is the goal? First step in improving thinking is to be clear about the goal or goals. Sometimes there are multiple goals; sometimes the goal changes as we work on a problem. If the overall goal is not OPERATIONAL (i.e., "get a good grade" or "reach a good decision"), then identify operational goals (write clearly, address all elements of the assignment, evaluate the consequences of alternative decisions). 2. What is known? Review what is known. You may know more than you realize, once you start taking a census. You may also realize that some of the apparently information is not certain at all. If you are completing an assignment or solving a problem for someone else, review guidelines for the assignment and ask yourself what the person cares about and values in a solution. 3. Which thinking skills will get...
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...outside the continental U.S. (Wal-mart Corporate, 2012)”. Wal-mart is looking to make Kava another part of its international business but there are many obstacles that the company needs to do before opening its doors in Kava. “At Wal-mart, we believe in a philosophy of operating globally and giving back locally. We know we can make the greatest impact on our communities by supporting causes that are important to our customer's right in their own neighborhoods”. (Wal-mart Corporate, 2012) After talking to Alex; it has become clear to me that it will not be an easy task so my critical thinking skills has to almost be flawless in this situation. After soaking in all the information Alex informed me of; my first order of business is get settle into my new home for the next three weeks and start brainstorming on how to knock out these problems. After Brainstorming for a few hours last night, I found my-self thinking about the problems this beautiful island Kava has had. So today, my first full focus is to find out how can Wal-mart give back to a community who’s been hit with some many disasters. Wal-mart has a headquarters in the United States that specializes in helping other countries such as Kava that have been plagued by natural disasters. Wal-Mart is all about doing what is right; as a company Wal-mart...
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...please refer to the BA handbook. Assistance from the office can only be given during office hours. Instructions for Assignment Submission Please refer to the LSBM general drop for detailed assignment submission instructions. You must follow these instructions exactly. Created by Mark Powell Page 1 Change and Continuity in Contemporary Business Assignment Brief Assignment Brief You are required to successfully complete one 3000 word essay from a choice of 3 questions examining Globalisation Choose Only ONE of the following questions: not required ones ( YOu can compare that one to books that are required herts friedman: cato) 1. Select one of the text on the recommended reading list for this module and provide a critical analysis of the selected text. Describe where you agree with the author and where you disagree. 2. The current economic situation has been described as having the potential to be worse than the Great Depression. What actions can Nation States, Trans National Corporations or Internation...
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