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Area of Science:

  • Nursing Education
  • Clinical Practice
  • Healthcare Professional Development

Background:

  • Critical thinking is a core competency in the nursing process.
  • Limited research exists on specific critical thinking indicators within nursing practice.
  • Evaluating critical thinking in nursing requires defined metrics.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To identify potential indicators of critical thinking in clinical nursing.
  • To define the attributes of critical thinkers in nursing practice.
  • To inform the development of assessment tools for nursing students' critical thinking.

Main Methods:

  • Literature review and focus groups to identify initial indicators and attributes.
  • Modified Delphi survey with 30 nursing professionals to establish consensus.
  • Two-phase study conducted from September 2009 to August 2010.

Main Results:

  • Identified 37 distinct indicators of critical thinking in nursing.
  • Defined 10 key attributes of critical thinkers in the nursing context.
  • Indicators categorized into five nursing process subscales: assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation.

Conclusions:

  • Operationalized critical thinking into practical indicators for nursing.
  • Developed a framework to assess critical thinking in clinical nursing.
  • Findings support clinical instructors in evaluating student critical thought and guiding teaching strategies.