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A user-friendly manual focused on the day-to-day realities of learning, implementing, and evaluating critical thinking in nursing, Critical Thinking TACTICS for Nurses addresses issues such as critical thinking language, awareness enhancement, the merging of critical thinking and quality care, encouraging the critical thinking of staff and students, and designing performance criteria for critical thinking. Authors M. Gaie Rubenfeld and Barbara K. Scheffer draw on their research and expertise in teaching and practice to synthesize the seventeen components of critical thinking in nursing with the Institute of Medicine's (IOM) five competencies: patient-centered care, interdisciplinary team work, evidence-based practice, informatics, and quality improvement. By blending the critical thinking components with the IOM's competencies, Critical Thinking TACTICS for Nurses makes the concept of critical thinking tangible and manageable, and offers specific strategies for improving critical thinking in all aspects of nursing care.