Relationships between critical thinking ability and nursing competence in clinical nurses

Journal of Clinical Nursing

Volumn 20, Issue 21-22, 2011, Pages 3224-3232

  Chang, Mei Jen ^a   Chang, Ying Ju ^b   Kuo, Shih Hsien ^c   Yang, Yi Hsin ^d   Chou, Fan Hao ^d  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c FOOYIN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Ability; Clinical Ladder System; Competence; Critical thinking; Nurses; Position

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; HUMAN; NURSING; TAIWAN; THINKING;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; HUMANS; NURSING; TAIWAN; THINKING;

EID: 80053928513     PISSN: 09621067     EISSN: 13652702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2010.03593.x     Document Type: Article

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