Background: One of the main goals of nursing education is training them to provide proper medical services to patients as well as healthy people in the community and health centers using their knowledge and specific skills. This service requires nurses’ critical thinking and effective learning. The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of critical thinking skill...

  Background & Aims: critical thinking is an index of cognitive ability. The nurses’ cognitive ability, specifically their ability for information processing and decision making, is the key component of nursing practice. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between critical thinking and clinical decision making in nursing students of Guilan University of Medical Sciences.   M...

Introduction: Critical Thinking (CT) is an essential component of clinical decision-making and professional competence. Personal characteristics of the students are one of the factors influencing their critical thinking development. The aim of this study was to determine the correlation between Critical Thinking Disposition (CTD) and self-esteem among pre-clinical and clinical medical students ...

recent studies in scientific education as well as foreign and second language instruction suggest that thinking has rarely been an integral part of education and training in classroom. some scholars decried the lack of emphasis on thinking in the institutes and schools. they noted that memorization and drills were rewarded,while inquiry, reflection, and consideration of alternatives were frowne...