Title: Demonstrate basic critical thinking skills.
Course: Respiratory Therapy I (14061-I) > Section: Applying Critical Thinking and Problem-Solving in the Healthcare Setting

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?