Course Overview:

As a healthcare professional, you are continuously being called upon to make decisions that not only affect you but also your co-workers, employer, and patients.  Critical thinking will help you make better decisions, solve problems, have a higher productivity rate, and give you the ability to think fast on your feet.  This course will introduce you to critical thinking skills and strategies as well as teach you how to implement a critical thinking plan to solve problems for positive outcomes. Finally, you will walk away with ideas on how to improve your critical thinking skills daily.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify critical thinking skills and strategies.
• Identify how healthcare professionals can apply critical thinking to solve problems at work.
• Describe ways to enhance critical thinking skills.