Critical thinking trends of nurses: An example of a training and research hospital

Hemşirelerinin eleştirel düşünme eğilimleri: Bir eğitim ve araştırma hastanesi örneği

Abstract

Introduction: The modern nursing understanding requires ability to easily adapt to the improvements and innovations in nursing, to search and question the knowledge, to be able to address problems and also critical thinking. Critical thinkingis a process which includes research, intuition, logicandexperiencewithuniversalvaluesandpotentiallyaffectpatientcare. Aim:Theaim of thisstudywastoidentifythe Critical ThinkingDisposition of Nurses in a research and training hospital and the factors that affect their disposition and to guide regulatory studies and improvements.Methods:This descriptive and analytical study included 106 nurses who were actively working in June 2014 and volunteered to participate. Data were colllected by ‘Descriptive Characteristics Questionnaire’ and ‘California Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory (CCTDI)’and analysed by Independent-Samples T Test and Oneway (ANOVA).Results:The mean age of nurses was 29.39 years. 42.5% of nurses had under graduate degree, 24.5% worked in cardio vascular surgery intensive care unit, 23.9% attended in-service training at least once outside this hospital and 28.3% attended in-service training at least once in this hospital. The mean critical thinking scores was found to be 218,188.Conclusion:The critical thinking disposition scores of emergency room nurses was higher than the others. Literature follow-up and scientific studies were found to affect the critical thinking dispositions positively.

Özet

Giriş: Modern hemşirelik anlayışı gelişmelere ve yeniliklere kolaylıkla uyum sağlayabilmeyi, bilgiyi aramayı, sorgulamayı, sorunlara çözüm getirebilmeyi ve eleştirel düşünmeyi gerektirir. Eleştirel düşünme; araştırma, sezgi, mantık ve deneyime dayanan, evrensel değerleri olan bir süreçtir ve hasta bakımını potansiyel olarak etkilemektedir.