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CRITICAL THINKING ACTIVITIES
​ 1.​ Consider a transition you are personally engaged you are experiencing. List influences such as cul-
in now. Identify characteristics of the transition tural beliefs and attitudes, socioeconomic status,
as defined in Transitions Theory that you have and level of your preparation that impact your
observed. Does consideration of this specific tran- approach to the transition.
sition make you more aware of other transitions ​ 4.​ Review your responses to the transition, and look
you are experiencing? for patterns in the responses. Ask five friends or
​2.​ Analyze the changes that you are experiencing due family members of different ages or ethnicity to
to the specific transition. Consider how your level describe their responses to the transition. Com-
of awareness of these changes influences your pare the descriptions given by those individuals
transition experience. Think about how long the with yours.
transition has been and what have been the land- ​ 5.​ Consider the outcomes of the personal transition
mark events and critical points of the transition. in question 1. What would facilitate successful
​ 3.​ Analyze personal, community, and societal condi- outcomes to the transition? What might inhibit
tions that may have influenced the transition that successful outcomes?

POINTS FOR FURTHER STUDY

n Meleis, A. I. (2011). Theoretical Nursing: Development the University of Pennsylvania at:http://www.
and Progress (5th ed.). Philadelphia: Lippincott. nursing.upenn.edu/dean/transitions/
n To respond to researchers’ increasing interest in
Transitions Theory, a website was established at

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