Description The Thinker's Guide to Clinical Reasoning introduces healthcare students and professionals to the foundations of critical thinking and offers examples of applications within clinical fields.
It is not enough for healthcare workers to have access to data and research, they must also know how to analyze and process information to guide patients in making the best decisions about their health.
This process requires critical thinking skills often ignored in healthcare curricula.
This book is an essential companion for all healthcare courses as it advances critical thinking within all specialties with the clinical professions.
As part of the Thinker's Guide Library, this book advances the mission of the Foundation for Critical Thinking to promote fairminded critical societies through cultivating essential intellectual abilities and virtues across every field of study across world.
About the Author Dr.
Linda Elder is an educational psychologist who has taught both psychology and critical thinking at the college level.
She has been President of the Foundation for Critical Thinking and the Executive Director of the Center for Critical Thinking for almost 25 years.
She has a special interest in the relation of thought and emotion, as well as the cognitive and affective.
She has developed an original theory of the stages of critical thinking development.
Elder has coauthored four books on critical thinking, as well as all 23 titles found in the Thinker's Guide Library.
Richard Paul was a leading proponent of critical thinking and through his work and legacy remains an international authority in the field.
He founded the Center for Critical Thinking at Sonoma State University in 1980, followed by the Foundation for Critical Thinking.
He developed concepts, principles, and theory essentials to a robust and fairminded conception of critical thinking and authored more than 200 articles and seven books on the topic.
He presented workshops to hundreds of thousands of e.
Foundation For Critical Thinking The thinker's guide to clinical reasoning, paperback/david hawkins
