Critical thinking skills for healthcare / Stephanie McKendry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McKendry, Stephanie, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Clinical competence.

Evidence-based medicine.

Decision making.

Problem-based learning.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 111 pages)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2015.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Thinking critically is an essential skill, both for students and for the modern, evidence-based, healthcare practitioner. You need to be able to find, understand and evaluate the evidence that underpins your assignments, clinical decision-making and practice. The good news is that you use all of these skills in everyday life. You don't believe every advert you see or respond to every spam email. It's just a question of taking these critical skills and having the confidence to apply them to your academic work. This book will help you do just that. It will enable you to: recognise your existing ability to be a critical thinker, spot logical flaws and inconsistencies in arguments, consider health issues from multiple perspectives, weighing up the strengths and weaknesses of a case, build a convincing argument in assessments, develop a range of critical skills for successful study and healthcare practice. Critical Thinking Skills for Healthcare is an essential resource for all health and allied health professionals in training. Book jacket.

Contents:

1. Taking a critical approach in everyday life

2. Taking a critical approach at university

3. Taking a critical approach to reading

4. Building a rational and credible argument

5. Taking a critical approach in assessments

6. Taking a critical approach in literature reviews

7. Taking a critical approach in dissertations

8. Taking a critical approach in reflection and reflective assessments.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781315766409

9781317660323

9781317660330

OCLC:

958101206

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.