Concept mapping: An educational strategy to improve graduate nurses' critical thinking skills during a hospital orientation program

Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 119-126

  Wilgis, Michele ^a,c   McConnell, Joy ^b  

^a Memorial Hospital Jacksonville   (United States)

^b JACKSONVILLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CONCEPT FORMATION; EDUCATION; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; IN SERVICE TRAINING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING EDUCATION; NURSING PROCESS; NURSING STAFF; NURSING THEORY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THINKING; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AUDIOVISUAL AIDS; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CONCEPT FORMATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EDUCATION, NURSING, CONTINUING; FEMALE; FLORIDA; HUMANS; INSERVICE TRAINING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING EDUCATION RESEARCH; NURSING PROCESS; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; NURSING THEORY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROGRAM EVALUATION; THINKING;

EID: 42149143492     PISSN: 00220124     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/00220124-20080301-12     Document Type: Article

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