Discovering Confidence in Clinical Reasoning and Critical Thinking Development in Baccalaureate Nursing Students

1998 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-70
Author(s):  
Ann G Haffer ◽  
Bonnie J Raingruber
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Clinical Reasoning ◽  
Baccalaureate Nursing ◽  
Baccalaureate Nursing Students

Identifying an Effect of Simulation Role Assignment on Critical Thinking Development in Baccalaureate Nursing Students

2016 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 1818-1822 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dustin T. Weiler ◽  
Jason J. Saleem
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Scenario Analysis ◽  
Baccalaureate Nursing ◽  
Baccalaureate Nursing Students ◽  
High Fidelity ◽  
Role Assignment ◽  
Assessment Scores ◽  
Patient Simulators ◽  
The Relationship

With an increase in the number of nursing students and the limited number of open clinical positions, high-fidelity patient simulators (HFPS) have become the new norm. Multiple studies have evaluated HFPS effectiveness and several suggest that HFPS does has an effect on critical thinking. This study intends to provide data to support that suggestion. In addition, this study was designed to identify a possible correlation between role assignment and improvements in critical thinking after completion of a HFPS scenario. Analysis revealed that role assignment, for most of the roles, did have a statistically significant effect on the post-simulation critical thinking assessment scores. The relationship between role assignments and HFPS scenario outcomes (such as critical thinking), as well as the nature of the correlation, may help scenario developers better understand how critical thinking improvement can be affected by the involvement of the participant based on the roles assigned to them.

Assessing Critical Thinking in Baccalaureate Nursing Students

2001 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 18-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theresa M. Beckie ◽  
Lois W. Lowry ◽  
Scott Barnett
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Baccalaureate Nursing ◽  
Baccalaureate Nursing Students

Ethical Reasoning in Baccalaureate Nursing Students

2009 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 499-510 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynn Clark Callister ◽  
Karlen E Luthy ◽  
Pam Thompson ◽  
Rae Jeanne Memmott
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Nursing Education ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Baccalaureate Nursing ◽  
Ethical Reasoning ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Baccalaureate Nursing Students ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Ethics Course

Nurses are encountering an increasing number of ethical dilemmas in clinical practice. Ethics courses for baccalaureate nursing students provide the opportunity for the development of critical thinking skills in order to deal with these effectively. The purpose of this descriptive qualitative study was to describe ethical reasoning in 70 baccalaureate nursing students enrolled in a nursing ethics course. Reflective clinical journals were analyzed as appropriate for qualitative inquiry. The overriding theme emerging from the data was `in the process of becoming', which includes: practicing as a professional, lacking the confidence as a student nurse to take an ethical stand, advocating for patients, being just in the provision of care, identifying the spiritual dimensions of nursing practice, confronting the `real world' of health care, making a commitment to practice with integrity, and caring enough to care. The development of critical thinking and ethical reasoning within the framework of knowing and connecting is essential in nursing education.

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