Critical thinking skills among nurses of a selected hospital A cross-sectional survey

Niranjana P R; Hebsiba P

Volume : IV, Issue : XII, December - 2015

Critical thinking skills among nurses of a selected hospital A cross-sectional survey

Niranjana P R, Hebsiba P

Abstract :

 Critical thinking is a pervasive skill that involves scrutinizing, differentiating, and appraising information and reflecting on the information gained in order to make judgments and inform clinical decisions. “A descriptive study to assess the critical thinking skills among nurses of a selected hospital in Thiruvananthapuram”. The purpose of this study was to examine the level of critical thinking skills among staff nurses in selected hospital, Thiruvananthapuram. The main objectives of this study were: to assess the critical thinking skills of nurses and to determine the association between critical thinking skills and selected socio- demographic variables. This study was conducted at Sree Gokulam Medical College, Venjaramoodu, Thiruvananthapuram. The participants in this descriptive study were selected from the staff nurses working in different areas of selected hospital. A Nurses Critical Thinking Assessment Performa were used among 150 nursing staff after conducting a pilot study among 40 nursing staff of the same hospital. The result revealed that 8% of nurses had good level of critical thinking skill , 77.3% of nurses had average level of critical thinking skill and 14.7% of nurses had poor level of critical thinking skill. There is no association between critical thinking skill and socio demographic variables