The nurse is using critical thinking skills to decide which of several options is the best. Which question is most important for the nurse to take into consideration?
A) Are there different situational effects or contexts to be considered?
B) How has the problem usually been handled?
C) What is the easiest and least expensive alternative?
D) Can the problem be solved using the nursing process?

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1. Critical thinking involves choosing the best alternative from among several, depending on the situation in which the problem occurred. This is the context of the problem.
2. Handling the problem the way it is usually handled may be easy but would not involve critical thinking.
3. Choosing the easiest or least expensive alternative may be easy but would not involve critical thinking.
4. The nursing process should be used in critical thinking, but the changing situation is the more defining and specific characteristic of critical thinking.

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