Measuring critical thinking in graduate education: What do we know?

Nurse Educator

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 132-137

  Seldomridge, Lisa A ^a   Walsh, Catherine M ^a  

^a SALISBURY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; LOGIC; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; METHODOLOGY; NURSE; NURSE PRACTITIONER; NURSING EDUCATION; NURSING STUDENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; STANDARD; TEACHING; THINKING;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, GRADUATE; EDUCATION, NURSING, BACCALAUREATE; EDUCATION, NURSING, GRADUATE; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; LOGIC; NURSE CLINICIANS; NURSE PRACTITIONERS; NURSING EDUCATION RESEARCH; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STUDENTS, HEALTH OCCUPATIONS; STUDENTS, NURSING; TEACHING; THINKING;

EID: 33745482838     PISSN: 03633624     EISSN: 15389855     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006223-200605000-00011     Document Type: Article

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