Teaching strategies and outcome assessments targeting critical thinking in bachelor nursing students: a scoping review protocol
Introduction Applying critical thinking is essential for nursing students both in an academic and clinical context. Particularly, as critical thinking is a vital part of nurses’ everyday problem-solving and decision-making processes. Therefore, regardless of the topic taught or the setting in which...
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| description | Introduction Applying critical thinking is essential for nursing students both in an academic and clinical context. Particularly, as critical thinking is a vital part of nurses’ everyday problem-solving and decision-making processes. Therefore, regardless of the topic taught or the setting in which it is taught, it requires teaching strategies especially targeting students’ critical thinking skills and abilities. One challenge with the latter is the difficulties to assess and evaluate the impact of such teaching strategies on the students’ critical thinking disposition. Hence, our objective will be to review published literature on; existing teaching strategies and outcomes assessments targeting nursing students’ critical thinking skills and abilities.Methods and analysis Our scoping review will be conducted in accordance with Arksey and O’Malley’s framework for scoping studies. Search strategies will be developed in cooperation with an experienced librarian, and adjusted to each individual database for example, CINAHL, PubMed, PsycINFO, ERIC and ERC. A preliminary search in CINAHL was conducted on the 17th of July 2019. Peer-reviewed published studies conducted with a qualitative, quantitative or mixed method design and focussing our objectives, will be eligible for inclusion. Included studies will be quality assessed in accordance with their study design. Data will be charted using a standardised extraction form. The qualitative data will be presented through a thematic analyses, and the quantitative data by descriptive numerical analysis. Lastly, nurse educators and nursing students will be consulted for validation of the findings from the scoping review.Ethics and dissemination Under the Swedish Ethical Review Act (2003:460) this study does not need ethical clearance by a Regional Ethical Review Authority as it not includes any primary empirical data on biological material or sensitive information. The findings will be used to inform the design of a future study aiming to develop an, and subsequently evaluate it, educational intervention targeting teaching strategies focussing on nursing students’ critical thinking skills and abilities. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-32e7313047b140459204cbae9a6557f42024-12-06T07:35:09ZengBMJ Publishing GroupBMJ Open2044-60552020-01-0110110.1136/bmjopen-2019-033214Teaching strategies and outcome assessments targeting critical thinking in bachelor nursing students: a scoping review protocolElisabeth Carlson0Gunilla Borglin1Frida Westerdahl2Anne Wennick3Department of Care Science, Malmö Universitet, Malmö, Skane, SwedenBachelor of Education in Nursing, Lovisenberg Diaconal University College, Oslo, Norway1 Department of Care Science, Malmö University, Malmö, SwedenDepartment of Care Science, Faculty of Health and Society, Malmo University, Malmo, SwedenIntroduction Applying critical thinking is essential for nursing students both in an academic and clinical context. Particularly, as critical thinking is a vital part of nurses’ everyday problem-solving and decision-making processes. Therefore, regardless of the topic taught or the setting in which it is taught, it requires teaching strategies especially targeting students’ critical thinking skills and abilities. One challenge with the latter is the difficulties to assess and evaluate the impact of such teaching strategies on the students’ critical thinking disposition. Hence, our objective will be to review published literature on; existing teaching strategies and outcomes assessments targeting nursing students’ critical thinking skills and abilities.Methods and analysis Our scoping review will be conducted in accordance with Arksey and O’Malley’s framework for scoping studies. Search strategies will be developed in cooperation with an experienced librarian, and adjusted to each individual database for example, CINAHL, PubMed, PsycINFO, ERIC and ERC. A preliminary search in CINAHL was conducted on the 17th of July 2019. Peer-reviewed published studies conducted with a qualitative, quantitative or mixed method design and focussing our objectives, will be eligible for inclusion. Included studies will be quality assessed in accordance with their study design. Data will be charted using a standardised extraction form. The qualitative data will be presented through a thematic analyses, and the quantitative data by descriptive numerical analysis. Lastly, nurse educators and nursing students will be consulted for validation of the findings from the scoping review.Ethics and dissemination Under the Swedish Ethical Review Act (2003:460) this study does not need ethical clearance by a Regional Ethical Review Authority as it not includes any primary empirical data on biological material or sensitive information. The findings will be used to inform the design of a future study aiming to develop an, and subsequently evaluate it, educational intervention targeting teaching strategies focussing on nursing students’ critical thinking skills and abilities.https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/10/1/e033214.full |
| spellingShingle | Elisabeth Carlson Gunilla Borglin Frida Westerdahl Anne Wennick Teaching strategies and outcome assessments targeting critical thinking in bachelor nursing students: a scoping review protocol BMJ Open |
| title | Teaching strategies and outcome assessments targeting critical thinking in bachelor nursing students: a scoping review protocol |
| title_full | Teaching strategies and outcome assessments targeting critical thinking in bachelor nursing students: a scoping review protocol |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Teaching strategies and outcome assessments targeting critical thinking in bachelor nursing students: a scoping review protocol |
| title_short | Teaching strategies and outcome assessments targeting critical thinking in bachelor nursing students: a scoping review protocol |
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