The relationship of critical thinking skills and critical thinking dispositions of baccalaureate nursing students

2003 ◽  
Vol 43 (6) ◽  
pp. 569-577 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanne Profetto-McGrath
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Baccalaureate Nursing ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Baccalaureate Nursing Students ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Thinking Dispositions ◽  
Critical Thinking Dispositions ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Ethical Reasoning in Baccalaureate Nursing Students

2009 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 499-510 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynn Clark Callister ◽  
Karlen E Luthy ◽  
Pam Thompson ◽  
Rae Jeanne Memmott
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Nursing Education ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Baccalaureate Nursing ◽  
Ethical Reasoning ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Baccalaureate Nursing Students ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Ethics Course

Nurses are encountering an increasing number of ethical dilemmas in clinical practice. Ethics courses for baccalaureate nursing students provide the opportunity for the development of critical thinking skills in order to deal with these effectively. The purpose of this descriptive qualitative study was to describe ethical reasoning in 70 baccalaureate nursing students enrolled in a nursing ethics course. Reflective clinical journals were analyzed as appropriate for qualitative inquiry. The overriding theme emerging from the data was `in the process of becoming', which includes: practicing as a professional, lacking the confidence as a student nurse to take an ethical stand, advocating for patients, being just in the provision of care, identifying the spiritual dimensions of nursing practice, confronting the `real world' of health care, making a commitment to practice with integrity, and caring enough to care. The development of critical thinking and ethical reasoning within the framework of knowing and connecting is essential in nursing education.

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