Charge Nurse: Critical Thinking
Description
Critical thinking is an essential skill for task management and decision making in high-risk situations. The course explores how information analysis can improve quality of thinking, and discusses key principles and barriers to thinking critically. Coursework will also focus on how the application of critical thinking through the nursing process can help staff arrive at appropriate decisions.
Course Dates
Wednesday, September 5, 2018
Inland Empire
Flex Ed California
3340 Riverside Drive
Chino, CA 91710
Wednesday, September 12, 2018
Moseley-Salvatori Conference Center
Good Samaritan Hospital
637 S. Lucas Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90017
Event Time:
Registration: 8:00 a.m.
Program: 8:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Course Objectives
- Be able to define critical thinking.
- Gain knowledge and insight into analyzing, reasoning, and evaluating problems.
- Become knowledgeable about intellectual standards.
- Recognize the barriers to critical thinking.
- Gain knowledge about the application of critical thinking in nursing practice.
- Be able to discuss feeling, vision and examination models.
Faculty
Mark Kaliher, RN, has been teaching with Flex Ed for more than three years. Kaliher is formally trained in ER nursing, and has worked as a staff nurse and relief charge nurse. Since 1988, he has utilized his extensive skill set to conduct in-services and employee orientations. His experience includes working in the ER, ICU, PACU, Outpatient Surgery and as the House Supervisor at Glendora Community Hospital in 1990. He also began teaching CPR and donating time to teach Basic Life Support classes at community education events.
Cost
$110 HASC Hospital Member
$150 Non-Acute Stakeholders
Contact:
Sherita Rogers
(213) 538-0767
srogers@hasc.org
