A nursing student is working on using critical thinking skills to develop expertise. The student is applying information learned from instructors, clinical laboratory skills, and textbook readings. The student is at which level of expertise?
A) Novice
B) Advanced beginner
C) Competence
D) Expert

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The first stage is novice, in which learners use rules to guide practice. Examples of such rules include information and skills learned from instructors, practice in laboratory, and read in books. Advanced beginner is the next stage. After more experience in clinical situations, nurses learn to consider more facts and complex rules. At competence, nurses devise new rules and reasoning procedures. They feel responsible for the outcomes and may question rules. Nurses gain competence through more experience. last stage is expert. The expert knows the goal to achieve and how to achieve it. The best experts think before they act. They intuitively use sound theoretical thinking to reflect on the goal and decide on the seemingly appropriate action

A Nursing Student Is Working on Using Critical Thinking Skills