Developing Critical Thinking Skills
pretending to perform skills and someone checks them off , a very subjective and ineffective way to assess critical thinking skills .
“ Healthcare agencies are employing these new nurses who have had limited experience in the healthcare setting ,” explains Coady . “ Many of them come from schools that can ’ t afford the levels of simulation needed to really provide them with high-level experiential knowledge . Yet , they come into an organization and are expected to immediately make critical patient care decisions .”
“ Not only do nurses have a patient who could physically be having a problem , but now there is technology that could also be having a problem — and that problem could potentially put the patient in even more danger .”
Monitoring and measuring
“ Critical thinking has a nebulous definition — everyone has a general idea of what it means to them , but when it comes to narrowing in on something objective that can be monitored and measured , it becomes very difficult ,” says Coady . Without an established standard within healthcare that lays out exactly how to monitor and measure critical thinking , organizations struggle with subjective evaluations .
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