Critical Thinking in the Operating Room: Skills to Assess, Analyze, and Act

Softbound Book + companion CD-ROM
Size: 8.5" x 10.5" book plus CD-ROM
Includes 3 Nursing Contact Hours
ISBN 1601462050
978-1601462053
HCPro
April 2008
Price $99.00
(click below for this book and CD set)

The operating room (OR) is a complex, fast-moving environment, requiring nurses to display their specialized skills across the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative setting.

Raise the standard of your OR nurses professional nursing practice and teach clinical care providers how to function at a higher level by developing your nurses’ critical thinking abilities. Build confidence and competence through critical thinking.

Critical Thinking in the Operating Room: Skills to Assess, Analyze, and Act is a new easy-to-use resource that explains the principles of critical thinking and how to encourage nurses to use critical thinking methods. This essential book and CD set 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, worksheets, and handouts to supplement the classroom learning.

This resource provides strategies for managers and nurse educators to use in developing critical thinking skills during orientation and beyond, and includes tools and resources for ongoing development.

Learn how to develop a culture of critical thinking, from coaching new grads through bad patient outcomes to encouraging experienced nurses by setting expectations.

You also get a CD with all the book’s valuable and completely customizable resources such as operating room -specific assessment tools, worksheets, and sample questions.

Critical thinking in the perioperative department
Defining critical thinking
New graduate nurses and critical thinking
The critical thinking classroom
Orientation: Bringing critical thinking to the clinical environment
Nursing practice that promotes and motivates critical thinking
Novice to expert: Setting realistic expectations for critical thinking
Applying critical thinking to nursing documentation
Relating critical thinking to its higher purpose
Resources and tools

Critical Thinking in the Operating Room: Skills to Assess, Analyze, and Act is a must-have for:

Chief nursing officers
Directors of nursing
Nurse managers
Nurse educator

Learning objectives include:

Describe the characteristics of the perioperative department that require good critical-thinking skills
Identify key aspects of critical thinking
Explain how nurses develop competency in critical thinking
Analyze the factors that contribute to new graduates' lack of critical thinking
Identify strategies to facilitate critical thinking in new graduates
Determine classroom strategies to teach, promote, and support the development of critical thinking
Determine ways to evaluate nurses’ progress in critical thinking throughout orientation
Develop strategies for the development of critical thinking skills during the orientation process
Discuss the role played by managers and educators in promoting environments that support critical thinking
Analyze the challenges that both new and experienced nurses face in the incorporation of critical thinking skills in the practice setting
Explain interventions to help both new and experienced nurses meet their managers and preceptors expectations for critical thinking
Apply critical thinking to nursing documentation

This resource is accredited as a provider of continuing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center Commission on Accreditation. This educational activity for 3 nursing contact hours is provided by HCPro, Inc.

Shelley Cohen, RN, BS, CEN, is the founder and president of Health Resources Unlimited, a Tennessee-based healthcare education and consulting company. Through her seminars for nursing professionals, Cohen coaches and educates healthcare workers and leaders across the country to provide the best in patient care.

Polly Gerber Zimmermann, RN, MS, MBA, CEN, has been active in emergency and medical-surgical nursing clinical practice for more than 29 years and in nurse educating for more than 10 years. She is a tenured assistant professor in the department of nursing at the Harry S.Truman College in Chicago.

Karen Gurnick, RN, BSN, has a background in critical care, post anesthesia care, inpatient care, and ambulatory surgery. She is the director of surgical services and respiratory care at Nashoba Valley Medical Center in Ayer, MA.

With more than 18 years of experience, HCPro, Inc. is a leading provider of integrated information, education, training, and consulting products and services in the vital areas of healthcare regulation and compliance. The company's mission is to meet the specialized informational, advisory, and educational needs of the healthcare industry. As an acknowledged industry authority in healthcare regulation and compliance, HCPro focuses on providing its clients assistance and expertise in the areas of accreditation, medical staff affairs, credentialing, privileging, medical record management, regulatory compliance, nursing, quality/patient safety, infection control, and workplace safety.

(information from the publisher)

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