Teaching Each Other Critical Thinking Skills

As nurses, especially those of us who are seasoned at the profession realize the importance of critical thinking. it is certainly a responsibility of us to share this knowledge with others and even other disciplines of persons caring for our patients. For example, the persons who work in radiology such as the technicians are not always aware of or exhibit knowledge of critical thinking (Kowalczyk, 2011). It is noted that nurses are among the first of the health care team members to demonstrate examples of making critical decisions quickly in emergent and non-emergent scenarios. An example of teaching other department members would perhaps use a patient scenario in a grand round sitting. I have been using grand rounds in post conference with a nursing students and have them demonstrate their knowledge to me after I present them with a case scenario. This is just a simple idea and example of mine, even though I'm sure there are many more sophisticated methods of teaching this principle.

                                                                         

                                                                     Reference

Kowalczyk, N. (2011). Review of Teaching Methods and Critical Thinking Skills. Radiologic Technology, 83(2), 120-132.