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How should a nurse respond when a patient asks if he or she is going to die?

Modes of action for antifungal agents include: inhibitors of cell walls/cell membranes, and protein and nucleic acid synthesis; and direct membrane damage. Which one of the following targets RNA; thereby leading to RNA miscoding? 

An important step in solving any problem is to clarify ideas, terms or theories by defining them.  For example, if I include a specific IDEOLOGY, I need to define the term.    Such “thinking tools” for understanding or explaining something are called:

Clearly identify your assumptions and make sure they are justifiable.  We would find this statement or guideline associated with which of the elements of thought?

When a person is aware of her own prejudices and biases and is willing to consider others’ points of view, he is demonstrating

Which of the critical thinking standards emphasizes the importance of “keeping the main thing, the main thing?”In other words, we must focus on what’s important and not on the trivial.

Jim is conducting interviews for a position with his company.  A young man applies for the position who has several piercings and tattoos on his neck and arms.  Although the young man is appropriately dressed in suit and tie and answers Jim’s questions with good answers, Jim tunes him out because he cannot get past the piercings and tattoos.  Which barrier is Jim having difficulty overcoming?

Sally is in college but doesn’t think it is important to study.  In addition she has no job, nor is she actively seeking one.  Sally tells everyone that one day she will be a millionaire and live in a large home on her own private island, own a yacht and have all the money she will ever need.  Which barrier is keeping Sally from being a critical thinker?

Often you will hear someone make statements like these: “What’s right or wrong is a matter of personal opinion.”  “ Abortion may be right for her but wrong for me.”  These statements demonstrate which barrier to critical thinking?

Katie and Nancy have been assigned a case study in Bioethics.  Because the problem is complex and involves multiple difficulties to be addressed, Katie suggests that they take the larger problem and break it down into important individual parts which can be looked at separately.  They are practicing which CT skill?