Critical Thinking & Clinical Reasoning Workbook

Activity 1: Fact, Judgment, or Opinion?

Directions: Read each clinical statement carefully. Identify if it is a Fact (proven true/false), a Judgment (evidence-based clinical conclusion), or an Opinion (personal belief/feeling) to earn points.

Activity 2: Socratic Questioning in Practice

Directions: Formulate three Socratic-style inquiry questions targeting the clinical challenge scenario below to earn your synthesis points.

Patient Care Scenario:

A patient refuses to take their prescribed medication because they believe it will make them sick.

1. Question Exploring Assumptions (What assumptions is the patient or team making?)

2. Question Exploring Evidence (What facts support or contradict the concerns?)

3. Question Exploring Implications (What could happen as a downstream result?)

🎉 +15 Points Awarded for Critical Reflection! Model Guiding Questions Framework for Review:

Assumptions Check: What is the patient assuming about the relationship between this pill and feeling sick? Is the staff assuming the patient is simply uncooperative?
Evidence Check: What documentation supports the side-effect concern? Is there lab work or clinical proof validating or refuting this anxiety?
Implications Check: What are the short-term and long-term physiological clinical risks if the patient continues to refuse this specific therapeutic line?