The Enhancement of Critical Thinking Competency for Nursing Students
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Critical Thinking; Nursing EducationAbstract
This article aims to present a teaching approach that enhances critical thinking skills in nursing education. Nowadays, regarding the complexity of health conditions among people in society. It can be seen that nurses are a crucial person for providing essential care for patients. Nurses work systematically in accordance with the procedures of the nursing process. It is a process that including identifying a patient's problems, choosing options of care, gathering information, evaluating choices, and selecting the best alternatives for decision-making. The decision to solve nursing problems must be under the standards that are accurate, comprehensive, and clear, and will not cause harm to clients. The quality of nursing decisions, therefore, directly affects the quality of nursing. The Nursing and Midwifery Profession statutes prescribe competent first-class nursing and midwifery practitioners' nursing practice to have the creativity and critical thinking. Nurses who can think critically will be able to make decisions to solve nursing problems more efficiently. Besides, critical thinking will also include pondering correctness and suitability according to ethics and professional ethics. If students have been developed an analytical thinking process, the production of graduate nursing students will further encourage students to have more critical thinking skills and continue working in the health team more efficiently.
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