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Critical Thinking: The Development of an Essential Skill for Nursing Students
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Critical thinking is defined as the mental process of actively and skillfully perception, analysis, synthesis and evaluation of collected information through observation, experience and communication that leads to a decision for action. In nursing education there is frequent reference to critical thinking and to the significance that it has in daily clinical nursing practice. Nursing clinical instructors know that students face difficulties in making decisions related to clinical practice. The main critical thinking skills in which nursing students should be exercised during their studies are critical analysis, introductory and concluding justification, valid conclusion, distinguish of facts and opinions, evaluation the credibility of information sources, clarification of concepts and recognition of conditions. Specific behaviors are essentials for enhancing critical thinking. Nursing students in order to learn and apply critical thinking should develop independence of thought, fairness, perspicacity in personal and social level, humility, spiritual courage, integrity, perseverance, self-confidence, interest for research and curiosity. Critical thinking is an essential process for the safe, efficient and skillful nursing practice. The nursing education programs should adopt attitudes that promote critical thinking and mobilize the skills of critical reasoning.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Papathanasiou, I., Kleisiaris, C., Fradelos, E., Kakou, K., & Kourkouta, L.
- Affiliations
- Technological Educational Institute of Thessaly (GR)
- Hellenic Mediterranean University (GR)
- Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki (GR)
- Corresponding author
- Papathanasiou, Ioanna
- Venue
- Acta Informatica Medica
- Publisher
- ScopeMed
- Published
- 2014
- Volume
- 22
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 283
- ISSN
- 0353-8109 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC4216424
- OpenAlex
- W2132113252
- Cited by
- 236
- References
- 28
- Citations by year
- 2026: 18 · 2025: 33 · 2024: 40 · 2023: 32 · 2022: 21 · 2021: 21 · 2020: 25 · 2019: 23 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 5 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 1
- FWCI
- 25.72
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Licence
- cc-by-nc-sa
- Locations
- Acta Informatica Medica (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Education › Education and Critical Thinking Development
- Health Sciences › Nursing › Leadership and Management › Healthcare Education and Workforce Issues
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Family Practice › Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills
- Keywords
- critical thinking, nursing students, nursing education, clinical decision-making, critical analysis, critical reasoning, clinical instructors, nursing practice
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