Hyo Kyung Kim, Bal Hee Lee, Kyoung A Nam
Improving interprofessional teamwork in a community mental health team: a team building circle program based on the restorative justice paradigm
Journal of interprofessional care
study investigated critical thinking skills among undergraduate nursing students australia obtain profile determine demographic predictors critical thinking universal agreement critical thinker outcome requirement many accreditation registering nursing bodies studies provide descriptive statistical information critical thinking skills studied changes critical thinking intervention limited research factors predict critical thinking skills available crosssectional descriptive study conducted using convenience sampling two hundred sixtynine students recruited across three years undergraduate programme 2009 students age ranged 20 34 years 58 87 female 91 australian 23 first second year students nursing associated experience external university data critical thinking skills collected via health science reasoning test hsrt linear regression analysis investigated predictors nursing students critical thinking skills students third year profile critical thinking skills comparable hsrt norms year study predicted higher critical thinking scores domains p0001 except subscale analysis nationality predicted higher scores total ct skill scores p0001 subscales inductive p0001 deductive reasoning p0001 nursing associated experience predicted higher scores subscale analysis p0001 age gender predictive however demographic predictors accounted small variance obtained domains ct skills understanding factors predict nursing students ct skills required despite study finding number significant predictors nursing students ct skills others yet understood future research recommended exploring explicit ct instructional approaches nursing students ct skills