Demonstration should include the following:
- Identifying assumptions, ethics, and values in written works
- Discerning fallacies in arguments
- Controlling psychological impediments to sound reasoning (e.g., the importance of remaining calm)
- Presenting valid facts, evidence, and statistics
- Reinforcing employer, customer, and patient satisfaction in treatment
- Evaluating statistics, rhetoric, and advertising claims
Process/Skill Questions:
- Why is objectivity important to critical thinking?
- How can the respiratory therapist’s psychological demeanor impede good patient care? The patient’s psychological demeanor?
- Why does cultural bias negatively affect good patient care?