School of Nursing and Midwifery, Curtin University and Child and Adolescent Health Service, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
Nurse Educ Today. 2012 Jul;32(5):614-7. doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2011.09.001. Epub 2011 Oct 8.
Nursing education in the UK has lagged behind most of the developed world since inception of Project 2000 because in England, a diploma has been accepted as the basis for education, unlike other countries (including Scotland and Wales) a degree has been the accepted standard for many years. While Australia's nursing education has been more protected, an anti-intellectualism is creeping in with a technical college now offering a nursing degree, and some universities lowering their admission standards for nursing courses. Changes in the UK being imposed through the influence of the global financial crisis threaten nursing even further and this is not helped by short sighted media reports of problems with nursing care in the National Health Service. This paper examines the continuing devaluing of critical thinking, something that we contend, with the strongest emphasis, should be at the core of every aspect of nursing practice, education and research., and implications for nursing in both the UK and Australia.
英国的护理教育自 2000 年项目启动以来一直落后于大多数发达国家，因为在英格兰，文凭一直被接受作为教育的基础，而不像其他国家（包括苏格兰和威尔士）多年来一直以学位为标准。虽然澳大利亚的护理教育受到更多保护，但反智主义正在悄然兴起，一所技术学院现在提供护理学位，而一些大学降低了护理课程的入学标准。英国的变革是受全球金融危机影响而强加的，这对护理行业造成了更大的威胁，而英国国家卫生服务体系中护理服务存在问题的短视媒体报道也无济于事。本文探讨了批判性思维不断贬值的问题，我们认为，批判性思维应该是护理实践、教育和研究各个方面的核心，这对英国和澳大利亚的护理都有影响。
