title: Critical thinking and accuracy of nurses' diagnoses. Part II: Application of cognitive skills and guidelines for self-development.
abstract: Part I of this article, the author explained the difficulties of achieving accuracy of nurses' diagnoses, the relevance of critical thinking to the achievement of accuracy, and newer views of critical thinking. In Part II, the critical thinking dimensions identified as important for nursing practice are applied in the diagnostic process using a case study of a 16 year old girl with type 1 diabetes. Application of seven cognitive skills and ten habits of mind illustrate the importance of using critical thinking for accuracy of nurses' diagnoses. Ten strategies are proposed for self-development of critical thinking abilities.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing College of Staten Island, City University of New York (CUNY), USA. lunney@postbox.csi.cuny.edu
authors.forename: Margaret
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lunney
mesh_terms: D003071:Cognition; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D009733:Nursing Diagnosis / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis