The Critical Thinking Exercise On A Critical Pathway

IT projects can have a lot of different components to them which creates the potential for more risks. These risks need to be identified, analyzed, and addressed as the project progresses (Schwalbe Ph.D., 2014). There are different types of risk that can affect the implementation of a system that will allow people to manage their own human resource information. A positive risks can produce a project under budget or ahead of schedule, while a negative risks can have adverse effects on a project such as going way over budget. There are also some risks that do not have a positive or negative impact on a project. Identifying risks and addressing them is mostly handled by the program manager.

The problem in this scenario is the challenges faced with trying to implement a new clinical pathway. This particular clinical pathway trying to be implemented is concerning ventilator-dependent patients who are discharged to home with home health care needs. These patients tend to have multiple health care needs beyond the ventilator and the new clinical pathway will establish a smooth transition from hospital to home, allowing for all the patient’s needs to be met. The challenges arise when trying to get all areas of the health care team to get involved. This especially includes the physicians that seem reluctant to follow a nurse’s guidelines. Not only are the physicians reluctant, the home health care representative will not be available to attend team meetings for a while. The new clinical pathway is due to be started in one month, so there is little time to get all parties on board.

A. This chapter deals with the concept of how our countries private industrial interests are making money off creating fear in the public. He talks about how the media creates fear using national and international issues to create fear in us. He also talks about how our Government is a part of the media’s strategy to create fear in society. Also, that the church plays into it by responding to what is seen and reported in the news as a response to the times. - 82 words

Beliefs, attitudes and values are three little words that have and make a massive impact on who we are as individuals, who we are as people, and even how the world is viewed by ourselves and others. A belief is something that individuals or groups think, such as believing in a god. Where a Value would be the living life in the ways a religion expects, this value will be made from the belief that the person or group has in their God. The attitude towards this would be the feelings, beliefs and behaviour tendencies towards this, for example praying, reading the holy book,

After reading " CLUES to Critical Thinking" in chapter 5, I disagree with the Supreme Court's decision to allow Law enforcements to strip search an arrested individual who had only committed a minor offense. The Fourth Amendment clearly states that, "The right of the people to be secure in their persons against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated. Unreasonable can be defined as not guided by or based on good sense, which in this case, strip searching an individual for a minor offense can be seen as unreasonable. The only time a cop should be able to strip search you is when the officer has a reasonable suspicion that you are either carrying contraband or an illegal weapon, that is what strip searches are for. It is not

The Purpose of this paper is to apply the 10 steps developed by (Browne & Keeley, 2010) and I will apply those methods on the following memo. A memo was drafted by Ms. Mary Ford (personal communication, January 30, 2012) who is Director of Amalgamated Public Employees Union (APEU) Local No. 121 to Mr. Hector Fuentes the President of APEU Local No. 121 on the issue on New Mexico State Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) Outsourcing, proposed by the New Mexico Governor Gloria Gainor. This is response memo to the Governor’s (personal communication, October 20, 2011) letter informing the APEU Local No. 121 the intent to

1. In a college paper the audience is almost always the professor. Knowing this the author would keep his paper very formal by using proper grammar, and appropriate word choice.and would make sure to add literary devices that the professor looks for. For example, if the professor enjoys imagery, then the student would try to fill his/her paper with that literary device. In certain situations the student may have to read their writing in front of the class. When the audience involves the classroom, one should try to structure his/her paper in a way that would not generalize broad topics, because a classroom scene isn't whole there are many cultural backgrounds to take in consideration. A way to avoid generalization is to not give a single perspective on vast topics. For example, if one is talking about Trump, they should write about a liberal's perspective, as well as a conservative's perspective.

“Most: Conger (1991) states in many instances an executive will overtly or covertly influence a team’s proposal, perhaps by picking team members whose opinions are already known, making his or her preferences clear in advance, or signaling opinions during the recommendation phase. If that is the case, the decision maker becomes a de facto member of the recommendation team and can no longer judge the quality of the proposal because his or her own biases have influenced it”

One of the specific feature of critical thinking that I would like to talk about is keep an open mind. I seem to have a big problem with this one myself. I never keep an open mind when it comes to thinking because over the years I felt that my way or decision making would be the right one without the input of others. I have learned the hard way that listening to others turned out to be a good thing because their insight on things would make others make a better decision for themselves or even myself. Open-mindedness is characterized by being receptive to other views and having the willingness to change views with new facts and evidence. Open-mindedness increases intellectual capabilities by allowing for new experiences and perspectives. A narrow

, if not most, have heard of the phrase “use your critical thinking skills” but probably never truly understood what that meant and what it entails. There are seven steps that are used in critical thinking: Identification, research, analysis, application, decision making, evaluation, and reflection. The first step in the critical thinking process is identification which means exactly what the first steps is: identifying the problem or issue. The second step is research which is researching what the problem is, how it could have come about, and any possibilities to overcome the issue at hand. The third step is analysis, this means that one must analyze, or evaluate the smaller bits of the problem and piece together how everything works hand in hand with each other. The fourth step is application. Application simply means applying the general moral principles to the problem one is trying to fix, deciding which ones are most relevant to the issue, and how they conflict with each other. The fifth step of the critical thinking process is decision making. Decision making is choosing the most effective and most ethical choice from the available options and using it to fix the problem and be able to justify the decision. The sixth step to the critical thinking process is evaluation. The evaluation step not only asks the individual if the choice they made was the most effective decision; but was the decision is morally and ethically sound for their predicament. The seventh and final

Critical thinking is imperative in this profession. It is my understanding that critical thinking looks at the whole situation and evaluates all contributing factors and dissects all angles. Critical thinking also allows for me to take into consideration who will be effected by the decision. believe critical thinking is a rational pathway to making informed decisions.

In psychology lesson 3 has many interesting filled topics one of them being absolute threshold. The definition of absolute threshold is the weakest amount of a given stimulus that a person can detect half of the time. This is extremely interesting because it shows the capabilities of human beings and our senses tested to the max. The picture in lesson 3.2 shows all the five senses and the absolute threshold of a human. The most interesting representation is sight due humans being able to see a candle flames 30 miles away on a night in idle conditions. The second most intrigued sense would be smell due to humans being able to smell one drop of perfume in a three room house. The third most fascinating example is taste due to humans being able to taste one teaspoon in two gallons of sugars. This is important information to know as a result of letting people know the limits of our senses and that us humans aren’t using our senses to our best potential.

Vince Lombardi quoted “Perfection is not attainable, but if you chase perfection we can reach excellence”. In so many cases, we strive for excellence, whether it is in our personal life or professional. What does it take to maintain excellence within an organization where you do not have control over human error, and let’s face it; we are all human and make mistakes as much as we hate to admit it. On average it was estimated that $171.5 billion is spent on research and developing training models (Green & McGill, 2011). For organizations to be successful and maintain excellence it starts with having a solid plan of strategy, which includes a well thought out training program, quality assurance process, as well as a process to evaluate the success of the training program. These factors together will aid in achieving and maintaining excellence within an organization.

Improving one’s thinking is one key to becoming a quality critical thinker and is accomplished through a series of elements of reasoning and quality standards for evaluating all thinking processes (Celuch & Slama, 1999). According to Merriam-Webster (n.d.), standards are models or examples that are used to measure; therefore critical thinking and reasoning are measured by intellectual models or criteria. For instance, clarity of thinking refers to points that are easy to follow due to being explained well so that it is clearly understood (The Intellectual Standards, 2014). In so much, critical thinking requires the purpose or goal to be clearly and precisely stated so that there is no confusion and the purpose will result in success (Paul & Elder, 2012). For example, important questions involving clarity might involve elaborating on the subject, giving illustrations or examples, or expressing the thought in a different way (Paul & Elder, 2012). Another standard of thinking is relevance which means that each thought is important and that it makes a difference in the overall thought process (The Intellectual Standards, 2014). According to Paul & Elder (2012), if it directly relates and makes a difference on the issue, it is relevant. Using information and data that supports and makes a difference in the final outcome of an issue is an example of relevant information. Relevance questions to ask in the thinking process are if this information relates to the problem, does it

Since the first day of the course, I have learned a lot about creativity and critical thinking. It has opened my eyes to brand new ways of how to express my creativity more efficiently; By thinking through problems and coming up with the best solutions possible; About different methods of critical thinking and how to be as successful as a student. In this reflection, I am going to express what I have learned in more detail. Starting with how I learned how to solve problems, the strategy I used successfully completed this course with what I learned, how this Course helped make connections to ‘real world’ and other courses in CWI, and lastly, how I put all that I learned into the ‘Final In-Class Project-The Wallet Project.’