In delivering patient-centered care, nurses also assist the patient and significant others with their own critical thinking skills to achieve health literacy. Consider the following 7 critical thinking skills (University of Michigan, n.d.): Analyzing Applying standards Discriminating Information seeking Logical reasoning Predicting Transforming knowledge Complete the following: Identify the 2 skills that you believe are most often used by patients and their significant others when diagnosed with a critical acute illness. Provide an example from your clinical practice that would describe your rationale of the behaviors that a patient or significant other may exhibit when using those critical thinking skills.
