HANDOUTS

Note: The handouts on this page are protected by copyright laws and are the property of Rosalinda Alfaro-LeFevre and Teaching Smart Learning. They may be downloaded for personal use only. School of Nursing Educators who require either Critical Thinking and Clinical Judgment: A Practical Approach or Applying Nursing Process: A Tool for Critical Thinking may make copies for their students, so long as they complete and send a permission request form (click here). All others must send a specific permissions request detailing the intended use.

Most importantly: , While these handouts are guides that can promote critical thinking, they do not replace the need for knowledge, critical thinking, and judgment on the part of the user.

  Links to Handouts  

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General Use Handouts.

1. Code of Conduct
2. Critical Thinking Strategies
3. Dead On Critical Thinking Game
4. Diverse Personalities
   (Do You Know What to Do When Someone Turns Blue?)
5. Nursing Process Summary
6. Patient Self Assessment Tool
7. Patient Data Analysis Worksheet (Virtual Clinical Instructor)
8. Nuts and Bolts of Concept Mapping (Getting in the "Right" State of MInd)

School of Nursing Faculty Handouts.

A. Analyzing and Refining Assignments