DQ Discuss three critical thinking skills necessary for evaluating and interpreting primary quantitative research for a DPI Project

DQ Discuss three critical thinking skills necessary for evaluating and interpreting primary quantitative research for a DPI Project

Critical thinking is a process that involves evaluating a collection of information from subjective and objective data, communication, and experiences that lead to actions taken to resolve an issue (Papathanasiou et al., 2014). Critical thinking plays a vital role as a DNP learner proposing a quality improvement project as it is essential to establishing a safe, efficient, and positive outcome. It is important for DNP learners to incorporate old nursing interventions and new knowledge as part of the critical thinking process to ultimately obtain a correct plan of interventions and actions. According to Buckley et al. (2020), practice projects should enable the learners to oversee nursing habits and utilize higher critical thinking skills when new processes and interventions. This is important for DNP learners because when proposing a DPI project, students should consider the current practice, new knowledge, and incorporate critical thinking to ultimately implement a process that will produce positive outcomes.

Three important components of critical thinking that are necessary for evaluating and interpreting primary quantitative research include analyzing the data, applying the intervention, evaluating the outcome (Papathanasiou et al., 2014). Like the nursing process, when examining studies, it is important for the DNP learner to analyze the data to compare and validate the practice site’s issue. After a thorough analysis of the study, the DNP learner would incorporate the information and transform it into an action or implementation in hopes to correct the issue and provide outcomes. Finally, evaluating the outcomes and data plays an important role in ultimately validating the effectiveness of the project.

References:

Buckley, K. M., Idzik, S., Bingham, D., Windemuth, B., & Bindon, S. L. (2020). Structuring doctor of nursing practice project courses to facilitate success and ensure rigor. Journal of Professional Nursing, 36(4), 206–211.