The impact of the nursing process education on critical thinking of nursing students

Abstract

Introduction Along with the evolution of nursing perspective, a growing demand for developing critical thinking and clinical reasoning skills is created to solve problems and take care of the patient, in this regards, Clinical instructors can meet these needs through changing the approach of clinical education in proper implementation of the nursing process. The aim of this study was to determine the impact of nursing process education on ability of nursing student's critical thinking. Methods This educational evaluation study by semi-empirical methods was conducted on 20 nursing students under supervision of 3 Volunteer clinical instructors by available Sampling method in 2015. Students designed nursing process based on patient's health status form and lessons learned previously. Nursing process were taught by clinical instructors from training to evaluation based on materials of " nursing process workshop" during one training session and again asked students to complete nursing process based on education and "new patients health status form" for the same patients. Assessment of critical thinking in students has been done using a standard questionnaire, California Critical Thinking Skills( in Five dimensions of evaluation , analysis , inference, inductive and deductive reasoning) before and after training. At the end, students assignments were collected and evaluated by nursing process checklist. Data were analyzed by using SPSS with Wilcoxon and spearman test. Results The comparing of critical thinking dimensions before and after education showed that in all aspects of critical thinking evaluation (P=0.04), inference (p=0.004), inductive reasoning (p=0.04) and deductive reasoning (p=0.005) and total score (p=0.01) except analysis score demonstrated a statistically significant differences in before and after education, also in nursing process, there was a significant differences (P=0.01) in scores of study and knowing fields before and after education Conclusion Result show that education of nursing process affect on critical thinking and applying nursing process in clinical atmosphere. One important outcome of the nursing process, changes in analytical thinking of students in clinical training. How to perform and attention of Clinical education team on execution trends have an important role in performing properly .