What Is Evidence Based Practice In Critical Thinking
Critical Thinking: Evidence Based Practice (EBP) and “Person-In-Environment” (PIE)
Week Two Assignment
Critical Thinking: Evidence Based Practice (EBP) and “Person-In-Environment” (PIE)
Critical thinking, what has happened to it? Is it apart of our daily lives or is it a part of the past? Can you tell me the definition of critical thinking or would every person’s response be different? Does today’s science have anything to do with critical thinking? How does evidence based practice (EBP) and “person-in-environment (PIE) relate to critical thinking? In this essay I will answer all of these questions plus give you more information on the subjects. So, by the end of this essay you should have a clear understanding of critical thinking: evidence based practice and “person-in-environment”. …show more content…
It looks like to me we live in a very complicated fast paced world, where we all have problems and issues and at times they are very hard to comprehend. Yet still decisions have to be made.
The interpretation of critical thinking goes as far back as the Socrates but in 1906 William Graham Sumner stated that the concept of critical thinking is:
“the examination and test of propositions of any kind which are offered for acceptance, in order to find out whether they correspond to reality or not”. He goes on to say that “Men educated in it cannot be stampeded. They are slow to believe. They can hold things as possible or probable in all degrees without certainty and without pain. They can wait for evidence and weigh evidence. They can resist appeals to their dearest prejudices.”
Another definition of critical thinking has been defined by Ku, K. (2009) as “judging information, evaluating alternative evidence and arguing with solid reasons." (pg.
Week Two Assignment
Critical Thinking: Evidence Based Practice (EBP) and “Person-In-Environment” (PIE)
Critical thinking, what has happened to it? Is it apart of our daily lives or is it a part of the past? Can you tell me the definition of critical thinking or would every person’s response be different? Does today’s science have anything to do with critical thinking? How does evidence based practice (EBP) and “person-in-environment (PIE) relate to critical thinking? In this essay I will answer all of these questions plus give you more information on the subjects. So, by the end of this essay you should have a clear understanding of critical thinking: evidence based practice and “person-in-environment”. …show more content…
It looks like to me we live in a very complicated fast paced world, where we all have problems and issues and at times they are very hard to comprehend. Yet still decisions have to be made.
The interpretation of critical thinking goes as far back as the Socrates but in 1906 William Graham Sumner stated that the concept of critical thinking is:
“the examination and test of propositions of any kind which are offered for acceptance, in order to find out whether they correspond to reality or not”. He goes on to say that “Men educated in it cannot be stampeded. They are slow to believe. They can hold things as possible or probable in all degrees without certainty and without pain. They can wait for evidence and weigh evidence. They can resist appeals to their dearest prejudices.”
Another definition of critical thinking has been defined by Ku, K. (2009) as “judging information, evaluating alternative evidence and arguing with solid reasons." (pg.