Introduction: Nowadays, experts introduce critical thinking as the main outcome of higher education and consider teaching "how to think" as the basis for learning. This study compares the critical thinking skills and critical thinking dispositions in freshmen and senior students of health care management. Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study was performed on a sample of 60 freshmen ...

Introduction: Development and strengthening of students' intellectual and moral skills has always been one of the essential  goals of educational systems in different countries, so the purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of metacognition education program on critical thinking and moral judgment of elementary students. Methods: This quasi-experimental study was performed by prete...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Preeclampsia is a special syndrome of pregnancy and common cause of mothersﹸdeath associated with delay in diagnosis and nursing staff’s inappropriate control. The current study was carried out to compare the effect of training on method based on critical thinking and traditional education on maintenance of knowledge level and clinical skill of controlling preeclampsia...

Introduction: With regards to the importance and role of critical thinking in nursing , especially in clinical setting, achieving this goal(improving critical thinking) is very important. So nursing teachers encounter with the challenge of how asisting their students for promoting the critical thinking skills especially in clinical setting. The aim of this study is investigating the ways of im...

Introduction. Today, the promotion of critical thinking skills is considered an expected outcome of postgraduate studies. This study was designed to determine the critical thinking skills of nursing students of Semnan University of Medical Sciences. Methods. In a descriptive cross-sectional study 107 continuous and incontinuous bachelor nursing students were investigated in 2001. The Californi...