Improving Critical Thinking in New Graduate Nurses: Are Practical Methods the Answer?

摘要

Critical thinking is an essential skill of health care professionals. Not sufficiently matured during undergraduate studies, critical thinking skills need continued de-velopment. One solution could be a practical guide of teaching meth-ods for clinical educators and pro-fessional development specialists to use with new graduate nurses. This column describes a few practi-cal methods that can improve criti-cal thinking.