Critical thinking is one of many outcomes that most undergraduate programs have adopted as part of curriculum. Tools are in place to measure critical thinking skills upon exit of a nursing program usually in forms of questions in final comprehensive examinations. Critical thinking is a skill and without a nursing-oriented context for grounding this skill it is in and of itself meaningless. Faculty members must determine the end in the development of the context. Creative measure and criteria must be developed among seasoned nurses to pass this knowledge to the new generation of our profession (Billings & Halstead, 2009).
Reference
Billings, D. M., & Halstead, J. A. (2009). Teaching in nursing; A guide for faculty (3rd ed.). St. Louis,
MO: Saunders Elsevier.
In my training, many years ago, the critical thinking part of the curriculum was an option for a philosophy course. How is it today in the prelicensure program? Part of every course or still one course designed as the critical thinking course?
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Deb P...Hi! You are correct and critical thinking is embedded today into lecture content and comprehensive testing. I'm only speaking from experience from the ADN program I teach in. Thanks for visiting!
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