Balancing the seen and unseen: Nurse educator as role model for critical thinking

Critical thinking is an important indicator of student learning and is an essential outcome of baccalaureate nursing education. The role of nurse educators in the development of students' critical thinking has been overlooked despite the importance of their actions to facilitate critical thinking in nursing education. We used a constructivist grounded theory approach within a larger mixed methods triangulation study to explore how nurse educators revealed their critical thinking in practice. From the grounded theory approach, a model emerged from our research, outlining the important aspects of nurse educators' critical thinking and how it is revealed in the clinical setting.

Source: Nurse Education in Practice - May 3, 2018 Category: Nursing Authors: Christy Raymond-Seniuk, Joanne Profetto-McGrath, Florence Myrick, William B. Strean Tags: Original research Source Type: research