If poor decisions are made, progress can be impeded, resources wasted, harm caused, and a career adversely affected. Nurses’ control over decision making may vary as to amount of control and where in the process they can influence decisions. Notice how these steps are analogous to the traditional problem-solving process or nursing process well-known by nurses and nurse managers. Framing trap: The way a problem is initially framed profoundly influences the choices made. According to Tanner, simulations can promote clinical reasoning, which leads to making conclusions in the form of clinical judgments and, thus, effective problem solving. 0000109842 00000 n
Nurse managers’ critical thinking abilities promotes a positive practice environment which can lead to better patient outcomes (Zori, Nosek, & Musil, 2010). In the early 1900s, Dewey equated critical thinking with reflective thought (The Critical Thinking Community, 2008). the consequences of their thinking (Rubenfeld & Scheffer, 2006). Critical thinking is both an attitude toward handling issues and a reasoning process. Data-driven decision making is important (Dexter et al., 2011; Lamont, 2010; Mick, 2011). The notion that experience is the parent of wisdom suggests that mature managers, over the course of their careers, learn from their mistakes. Critical thinking and decision-making competences include analytical skills as well as intuition. The use of human patient simulators is well known in educational settings. Past events, trends, and numbers outweigh current and future realities. Critical thinking and effective decision making are the foundation of effective problem solving. Shared decision making is a process by which nurses help patients make informed healthcare decisions. Facione also pointed out that critical thinking is not only a skill but also a disposition that is grounded in a strong ethical component. Often it is these “unconnected” staff members who bring new decision frames to the meeting and have the most unbiased view of the problem. All individuals have preconceived notions and biases that influence decisions in a variety of ways. Decision making is the essence of leadership and management. Status-quo trap: Decision makers display a strong bias toward alternatives that perpetuate the status quo. There may be a short-term cost savings, but if not implemented appropriately, this tactic may result in the gradual erosion of patient care over time (Kane et al., 2007). If little knowledge is available or if the specific situation is more complex or variant from the usual, then the nurse faces uncertainty. Simulations also promote critical thinking or “thinking like a nurse” (Tanner, 2006). Therefore it is important to ask deep questions and probe into thinking sequences, seek evidence, closely examine reasoning and assumptions, analyze basic concepts, and trace out implications. 0000005729 00000 n
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Whether there is sufficient information/expertise, 3. Critical thinking can help all health care personnel to examine these complex systems, wherein groups solve problems through complex, continually altering interactions between the environment and all involved in the decision making (Fioratou et al., 2011). Confirming-evidence trap: Kahneman and colleagues (2011) noted that decision makers also fall into the trap of confirmation bias where contradictory data are ignored. FIGURE 4-2 Decision-making maze. The content of this paper aims to promote awareness of how triage nurses make … The marketing staff may interpret problems as military battles that need to be won. Therefore use of best practices needs to be examined carefully in order to use them appropriately. Clinical judgment is a complex skill grounded in critical thinking. Learning and understanding which analogies and perspectives offer the best view of a problem or issue are vital to effective decision making. Conditions of risk occur commonly relative to the administration of medications, crisis events, infection control, invasive procedures, and the use of technology in nursing practice. Critical thinkers go beyond the step-by-step processes outlined in the nursing process and traditional problem solving. Trying to integrate so many data points in care delivery can overwhelm the care provider who is making clinical judgments. Staff nurses and managers must use critical thinking skills in order to determine the appropriateness of implementing recommended practice protocols. According to Choo (2006), organizations use information to “make decisions that commit resources and capabilities to purposeful action” (p. 1). In the face or rapid change in the environment, past practices that exhibit any sense of permanence provide managers with a feeling of security. These decisions subsequently have financial implications related to reimbursement, staffing, and the like. Technical and scientific knowledge 5. Alfaro-LeFevre noted that outcomes-focused thinking helps to prevent, control, and solve problems. The importance of the quality of the decision, 2. The roots of the concept of critical thinking can be traced to Socrates, who developed a method of questioning as a way of thinking more clearly and with greater logical consistency. A CAS is characterized by groups of individuals who act in unpredictable, nonlinear (not cause and effect) ways, such that one person’s actions affect all the others (Holden, 2005). As implied by the word frame, individuals may perceive problems only within the boundaries of their own frame. • Given the information, what conclusions are justified? Whether there is sufficient information/expertise Both the American Nurses Association’s (2009) and American Association of Nurse Executives’ (2005) standards for practice for nurse administrators and executives support the fact that in a fast-paced health care delivery environment, staff nurses, leaders, and managers must be able to analyze and synthesize a large array of information, use critical thinking and decision making skills to deliver effective day to day patient care, and solve complex problems that occur in complex health care delivery systems (see Figure 4-1). That includes staff nurses in concert with their managers. Nurse executives may view concerns from a care or family frame that emphasizes collaboration and working together. Having situation awareness is a must (Fioratou et al., 2011; Sitterding et al., 2012). All individuals have preconceived notions and biases that influence decisions in a variety of ways. Because problems change over time, decisions made at one point in time may need to be changed (Choo, 2006). A traditional thinker, thought to be the norm in nursing, preserves status quo. Questioning is implicit in the critical thinking process. 0000065261 00000 n
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Decision makers need to make every effort to forecast unanticipated consequences of their decisions. The extent to which conflict over preferred solutions is likely So we can say that the judgment and alternative are whole on “unbiased” and “intuition” move toward. Conditions of uncertainty and complexity are common in nursing care management. Decision making involves an evaluation of the effectiveness of the outcomes that result from the decision-making process itself. Anchoring trap: When a decision is being considered, the mind gives a disproportionate weight to the first information it receives. • Evaluate decision through monitoring, troubleshooting, and feedback. Hospital administrators may decide to add additional services to keep up with external forces. H��WKo�6�+:`"����t�^�H['@��C��vbol+�����|×�,������*�E.U�̗IV YI&��e2_%w�}���%���:-�Q�N�тvK� �Dˁ�Σ��qK�-���L����~H�@ D^fp��ŷ�ܦ���B$�sc>��*E�+گ>��d��pc���ЛZ4ʼ�yS�B�LdՈ����o�"�%ɦH��P�Q-4]�B˒��F�6���}�i�C�ZwXW�$iVI�Q�rC�F\��R���x"�GZ�;��:2ݘ$3�]�A�B���d����i�� In addition, workflow interruptions can inhibit critical thinking, particularly in a chaotic environment (Cornell et al., 2011; Sitterding et al., 2012). Critical thinking can help all health care personnel to examine these complex systems, wherein groups solve problems through complex, continually altering interactions between the environment and all involved in the decision making (Fioratou et al., 2011). Within a hospital or other health care agency, a social network forms that is interprofessional (Tan et al., 2005). The electronic health record can be mined for valuable data, upon which fiscal, human resource, and patient care decisions can be made. These crucial judgments should take place within the context of interprofessional collaboration. Dramatic events may overly influence decisions because of recall and memory, exaggerating the probability of rare but catastrophic occurrences. Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Google+ (Opens in new window) This is called aversion bias (Kahneman et al., 2011). In nursing, as with all health professions, clinical judgments should be patient-centered, use available evidence from research and other sources, and use available informatics tools (IOM, 2003). For example, in disaster management, the nurse leader will use predetermined procedures for determining roles of the various personnel involved (Coyle et al., 2007). As such, they need information, resources, and support from their environment. An optimizing decision includes comparing all possible solutions with desired objectives and then selecting the optimal solution that best meets objectives (Choo, 2006; Guo, 2008). Nurse leaders are coming to understand that innovation and new technology are the driving forces behind the discovery of new knowledge and improvements in patient care. Many new nurses, in particular, need to further develop their critical thinking skills (Fero et al., 2008; Developing concept maps is another useful strategy to promote critical thinking. For instance, predicting the outcome of clinical and administrative decisions in health care is problematic because such processes are collectively defined as complex adaptive systems (CASs). The long-term outcome of this decision may actually result in increased expenses not reduced expenses. What should stay the same and what can be done to avoid future problems? Critical thinking, then, is characterized by thinking that has a purpose, is systematic, considers alternative viewpoints, occurs within a frame of reference, and is grounded in information (The Critical Thinking Community, 2008). Assignment 3: Ethical Decision Making in Personal Practice Experience Jessica Steffens ID# 3253187 Athabasca University NURS 250 Exploration of Professional Nursing Practice Tutor: Yvonne Moore December 11, 2016 Ethical Dilemma in Personal Practice Patient advocacy is an important nursing role and requires nurses to consider patients thoughts and feelings while ensuring their health care access… Critical thinking helps overcome these obstacles. However, he further asserted that as information flow became more complex and faster-paced, a new decision-making model based on the use of partial information that has not been fully analyzed had begun to evolve. That includes staff nurses in concert with their managers. Both the American Nurses Association’s (2009) and American Association of Nurse Executives’ (2005) standards for practice for nurse administrators and executives support the fact that in a fast-paced health care delivery environment, staff nurses, leaders, and managers must be able to analyze and synthesize a large array of information, use critical thinking and decision making skills to deliver effective day to day patient care, and solve complex problems that occur in complex health care delivery systems (see, Committee on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2011. Nurse managers use decision making in managing resources and the environment of care delivery. For example, if research has shown that, under prescribed conditions, the selection of a specific nursing intervention is highly likely to produce a certain outcome, then the nurse in that situation faces a condition of relative certainty. Much of the evidence from the body of research indicates that nurses value their intuition in a variety of clinical settings. The motivation of followers to achieve organizational goals, 7. Many new nurses, in particular, need to further develop their critical thinking skills (Fero et al., 2008; Forneris & Peden-McAlpine, 2009). However, Effken and colleagues (2010) stated that decision making is much more. No matter what questions are asked, critical thinkers need to know the “why” of the thinking, the mode of reasoning (inductive or deductive), what the source and accuracy of the information is, what the underlying assumptions and concepts are, and what might be the outcome of the thinking (The Critical Thinking Community, 2008). Triage nurses, in the Accident and Emergency (A&E) department, work in considerable levels of uncertainty and require essential skills including: critical thinking, evaluation and decision-making. Nurses have probably always known that their decisions have important implications for patient outcomes. In an era of changing reimbursements, value based purchasing, and expanded roles for nursing in the health care delivery system, critical thinking and decision making are important skills for nurses caring for patients and for nurse leaders and managers. Sunk-cost trap: Past decisions become sunk costs, and new choices are often made in a way that justifies past choices. 5. Furthermore, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has set forth meaningful use criteria for implementation of CPOE as well as electronic health records (EHR). Conditions of risk occur commonly relative to the administration of medications, crisis events, infection control, invasive procedures, and the use of technology in nursing practice. Unintended effects may include higher turnover of experienced nurses, increased adverse events such as medication errors, decreased staff morale, and lower patient satisfaction scores. Despite incentive payments for implementing EHR (HFMA P & P Board, 2012), the financial costs involved, human-factor errors and work-flow issues can hamper successful implementation (Campbell et al., 2006). This approach arises in response to the need to make a decision when the amount of data exceeds the time available to analyze it. However, if a unit is chronically short-staffed, a decision regarding long-term solutions will have to be made. However, Effken and colleagues (2010) stated that decision making is much more. In a chaotic health care delivery environment, where regulations and standards of care are always changing, any decision may cause an unanticipated future problem. Obviously all these issues may contribute, in part, to the problem; however, each person, in looking through his or her individual frame, sees only that portion with which he or she is most familiar (Layman, 2011). Clinical judgment results in nursing actions directed toward achieving health outcomes (Alfaro-LeFevre, 2009). He called this model “humble decision making.”. Thus it is vital for nurses to understand decision making and explore styles and strategies to enhance decision-making skills. For example, the chief executive officer may frame issues as a competitive struggle not unlike a sports event. This is sometimes called a “satisficing” decision. Decision-Making Process The decision-making process is often broken down into a series of linear steps. Vital Notes for Nurses: Professional Development, Reflection and Decision-making explores the core strategies of reflective practice and decision-making underlying professional nursing development. • Is this the right question? Instead, expert decision-making activities are creative, innovative, and adapted to uncertainty and the context of the current problem, using learning from prior experience (p. 189). In the UK, for example, the Chief Nursing Officer recently outlined 10 key tasks for nurses as part of the National Health Services modernisation agenda and the breaking down of artificia… FIGURE 4-3 Decision-making situations. ADMINISTRATIVE AND ORGANIZATIONAL DECISION MAKING This social network has to collaborate for positive change within the organization and to make clinical decisions of the highest quality. A decision maker may become so enamored by technological solutions (and slick vendor demonstrations) that he or she may unconsciously decide in favor of these systems even though strong evidence supports implementing less costly solutions first. Propositions 1. Take, for instance, a decision to reduce expenses by decreasing the ratio of registered nurses to nurses’ aides. Their model uses a contingency approach, which assumes that situational variables and personal attributes of the leader influence leader behavior and thus can affect organizational effectiveness. If problems require urgent action, then decisions must be made rapidly; if solutions do not need to be identified immediately, decision making can occur in a more deliberative way. Various decision-making models and strategies exist. This may result in becoming trapped by an escalation of commitment. Disadvantages There are various disadva… While decision‐making research in acute care nursing is prevalent, errors in decision‐making continue to lead to poor patient outcomes. 3. Personal decisions range from multiple small daily choices to time management and career or life choices. Shared decision making improves patient autonomy. However, As managers, allowing staff and self “think time” is essential for reflection and is a key component of critical thinking (Zori & Morrison, 2009). In nursing, as with all health professions, clinical judgments should be patient-centered, use available evidence from research and other sources, and use available informatics tools (IOM, 2003). Critical thinking can be defined as a set of cognitive skills including “interpretation, analysis, evaluation, inference, explanation, and self-regulation” (Facione, 2007, p. 1). Different framing of the same problem can lead to different decision responses. The following are some of the questions to be asked when thinking critically about a problem or issue (Elder & Paul, n.d.): • Is there another question that must be answered first? This bias leads people to seek out information that supports an existing instinct or point of view while avoiding contradictory evidence. Conversely, excessive cautiousness or prudence may also result in faulty decisions. Often it is these “unconnected” staff members who bring new decision frames to the meeting and have the most unbiased view of the problem. A typical example is favoring new technology over less glamorous alternatives. The nursing process itself involves the need for quality decision-making at every sage of assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation of patient needs and demands. 0000003133 00000 n
5. Expert decision making is a constructive process in which the outcomes are not preplanned or simply pulled out of a memory bank. Ready access to the Internet and online library sources can further create complexity in the decision-making process as care providers have access to more information upon which to make decisions. Incrementalism is slow progress toward an optimal course of action. • Develop and implement an action plan for problem solution. Barriers to effective decision making exist and, once identified, can lead to going back through the decision-making process. For instance, predicting the outcome of clinical and administrative decisions, In CASs, humans do behave in unpredictable ways (Tan et al., 2005). Limitations of time, money, or people may prevent the decision maker from selecting the more deliberative and slower process of optimizing. Although typically used in prelicensure programs (Ellermann et al., 2006), nurse managers can encourage their preceptors to use concept maps with orientees (Toofany, 2008). Yet staff nurses and nurse managers and leaders must make decisions in uncertain and complex environments (Clancy & Delaney, 2005). Confused meanings, inadequate evidence, or self-contradictory beliefs may lie below the surface of rhetoric. It is what leaders and managers are expected to do (Keynes, 2008). That includes staff nurses in concert with their managers. If a provider fails to input critical information, such as a medication that a patient is taking, a fatal drug interaction could occur when another provider prescribes a new medication. According to Tanner (2006), decision making in the clinical arena is called clinical judgment. More alternatives can be generated by a group and more data can be gathered upon which to base the decision, rather than just using data that is more readily apparent. 6. For example, the chief executive officer may frame issues as a competitive struggle not unlike a sports event. The characteristic that distinguishes a professional nurse is cognitive rather than psychomotor ability. evolve.elsevier.com/Huber/leadership/ In fact, the nurse manager’s expertise in critical thinking and shared decision making are essential for creating healthy work environments where quality and effective care can be delivered (Kramer et al., 2010; Zori et al., 2010). Obviously, it is important to begin the goal definition phase with staff members who are closest to the issue. Within a climate of uncertainty and complexity, nurse managers and leaders must also understand that all decision making involves high-stakes risk taking (Clancy & Delaney, 2005; Keynes, 2008). However, decision making is more than just problem solving. A minimal decision results in an outcome that is sufficient, satisfies basic requirements, and minimally meets desired objectives. For example if staffing is cut, what adverse events might occur (Kane et al., 2007)? Etzioni (1989) noted that the traditional model for business decisions was rationalism. The principles that underpin decision-making for the nursing and midwifery practice are: 1. Aug 7, 2016 | Posted by admin in NURSING | Comments Off on Critical Thinking and Decision-Making Skills. Overlapping, unclear, and changing roles for nurses as a result of new technology and services create complex decision-making situations and impact the quality of care delivered (IOM, 2003). Developing concept maps in concert with others further develops a nurse’s critical thinking through the process of dialogue. This approach arises in response to the need to make a decision when the amount of data exceeds the time available to analyze it. A decision maker may become so enamored by technological solutions (and slick vendor demonstrations) that he or she may unconsciously decide in favor of these systems even though strong evidence supports implementing less costly solutions first. Nursing practice demands that practitioners display sound judgement and decision-making skills as critical thinking and clinical decision making … Decision making involves an evaluation of the effectiveness of the outcomes that result from the decision-making process itself. Flaws in thinking can create hidden traps in decision making. 4. Framing trap: The way a problem is initially framed profoundly influences the choices made. Various decision-making models and strategies exist. It may be necessary for nurse managers to expand their frame of reference and be willing to consider even the most outlandish ideas. Critical thinking is a skill that is developed for clarity of thought and improvement in decision-making effectiveness. H��Wɒ�6��T��չ%�JU��nSs�H�2��r���!����+J� ��K�2M�J4�h~�V˜l�j��ɺ��buK�X�4LD?&�X�4ef����s#zM2�:$��/k���,�E*�^��d�f��Vc���1C{%Zk��'��0��+��i��O�o�&l���2����5�}$I֯�赒��˿x�v�n�4t��Ʋ��^��������J��Z'�W����R�e�w�|��&�r"M��PZ����a:Ҫޡ�d Z�����$@j�"p������?D��AشP*����k���Mt�&!��� H�� �ViavD��x���9)��Bk=
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