To develop critical thinking, the nurse needs to develop a critical-thinking character that ...

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To develop critical thinking, the nurse needs to develop a critical-thinking character, which includes maintaining high standards and developing critical-thinking qualities such as honesty, fair-mindedness, creativity, patience, persistence, and confidence. The next step in the development of critical thinking includes taking responsibility for personal learning and seeking needed experiences that can provide the necessary knowledge on which to base the thinking. Fostering interpersonal skills, such as teamwork, conflict management, and advocacy, is important in the development of critical thinking. Self-evaluation and having thinking evaluated by others require the ability to accept and use constructive criticism.