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Kevin A Kupzyk1, Teresa Barry Hultquist2, Lynnette Leeseberg Stamler2
1College of Nursing, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA kevin.kupzyk@unmc.edu.
Abstract:
Background and Purpose: In order for nurses in professional practice to be considered practice ready, critical thinking skills are an important part of fully developing skills in patient care. The Critical Thinking Self-Assessment Scale (CTSAS) measures 16 subskills under 6 broader themes. After previous reductions in the original 115-item scale to 46, the purpose of this study was to evaluate the structure, reliability, validity, and clinical utility of the CTSAS in its current form. Methods: With a sample of 514 undergraduate nursing students, confirmatory factor analysis, reliability statistics, and relationships with the Need for Cognition Scale were used for the current aims. Results: Good reliability and structural and convergent validity statistics were obtained. Conclusions: After finding the CTSAS to be a valid, reliable tool, we also discuss how the tool could be used by nursing faculty to evaluate and improve their students' critical thinking skills.
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