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Critical thinking: toward a nursing science perspective.

F D Hicks1

  • 1Niehoff School of Nursing, Loyola University, Chicago, USA.

Nursing Science Quarterly
|March 5, 2002
PubMed
Summary

Critical thinking in nursing is vital for advancing knowledge and practice. Further research is needed to explore its connection to the human-environment field process beyond current limited views.

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Area of Science:

  • Nursing Science
  • Human-Environment Interactions

Background:

  • Critical thinking is fundamental to nursing education, practice, and knowledge advancement.
  • Existing research on critical thinking in nursing is limited by a positivistic viewpoint.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To re-examine the phenomenon of critical thinking in nursing.
  • To explore potential new avenues for understanding critical thinking in relation to the human-environment field process.

Main Methods:

  • Conceptual analysis of critical thinking within nursing.
  • Exploration of congruence with principles of Self-Transcendence, Human Becoming (SUHB).

Main Results:

  • Critical thinking is a context-dependent, evolving life process.
  • Critical thinking may manifest as a pattern of the human-environment field process.

Conclusions:

  • The current understanding of critical thinking in nursing is insufficient.
  • Nurse scholars should investigate novel perspectives on critical thinking, particularly its relationship with the human-environment field process.

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