Identify critical thinking skills you can use to assist

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Question: A 50 year old female patient presents to your unit with complaint of abdominal pain and nausea for one day.

Your assessment: T=101.2, P=102, BP=143/86, RR= 28

When you ask the patient, she denies pain. You auscultate her abdomen and hear sluggish bowel sounds. She guards and grimaces when you attempt to palpate her abdomen. Her husband reports "She hasn't been feeling well for 3 days, I think she needs surgery."

Identify three critical thinking skills you can use to assist you in obtaining a complete health history from this patient.

Explain why these skills would be appropriate and how you would implement them. (250 words)

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