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Creative And Critical Thinking

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In nursing school, student are thought from day one the importance of critical and creative thinking, we are often told that this will come in handy in solving problems and facing distressing situation in the real world. Nursing students often hear from their instructors to always critically think and to not simply rely on the information at hand but to put all the data together to make it more meaningful. Truth, free will, knowledge and opinions often time influence the way we think critically, and there are some habits, which can hinder us from critically and creatively thinking in solving problems. Healthcare, affects everybody and vice versa everybody affects the way healthcare is delivered. One public issue that involves Healthcare is the overcrowding of our Emergency Room. Critical thinking is very important in making decision such as reading into advertisement and deciding what to believe especially in ads such as weight loss pills advertisement. The Emergency Department, or most commonly known as Emergency Room (ER), has a very vital role in the U.S. health system. ER is expected to provide medical services to any patients who walk in to their department (Pham, Patel, Millin, Kirsch & Chanmugam, 2006). But just like any other room, unit or building, the ER, also has a limit of capacity in order to function, accommodate and serve the people who are occupying the space. The issue of overcrowding is an on going chronic problem in many ER not only here in the U.S. but even in other countries. Overcrowding results to ER diversion, this is a reallocation of patients that are coming in via ambulance to the neighboring ER (Pham, Patel, Millin, Kirsch & Chanmugam, 2006). Although this might sound a very practical solution, this causes some undesirable outcomes not only to the patient due to delay of transport and treatment but also to the ER diverting the patient and the ER receiving the patient. Prevention is better than cure. The lack of public health reforms leads our health care system to multiple problems such as overcrowding and ER diversion. The roots of some of our major health problems are the lack of the public awareness on how they can stay healthy. Many of us are critical on these reforms, many questions the imple

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