When implementing a quicker way to set up and initiate an IV while sti

When implementing a quicker way to set up and initiate an IV while still following safe practice, a nurse is practicing which of the attitudes of critical thinking?

1. Independence
2. Intellectual courage to challenge the status quo or rituals
3. Integrity
4. Confidence

ANSWER

Correct Answer: 1
Rationale 1: Nurses who can think for themselves and consider different methods of performing technical skills–not just the way they may have been taught in school–develop an attitude of independence.
Rationale 2: Courage to challenge the status quo comes from recognizing that sometimes beliefs are false or misleading. Integrity requires that individuals apply the same rigorous standards of proof to their own knowledge and beliefs; that is not what is described in the stem.
Rationale 3: Integrity requires that individuals apply the same rigorous standards of proof to their own knowledge and beliefs; that is not what is described in the stem.
Rationale 4: Confidence is the self assurance to act on one’s own beliefs; that is not what is described in the stem.