Department of Care Science, Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden
Department of Care Science, Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden.
BMJ Open. 2020 Feb 2;10(1):e033214. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-033214.
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.
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 17 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.
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.
批判性思维对于护理专业的学生在学术和临床环境中都至关重要。特别是，批判性思维是护士日常解决问题和决策过程的重要组成部分。因此，无论教授的主题是什么，也无论教学环境如何，都需要专门针对学生批判性思维技能和能力的教学策略。后者的一个挑战是，评估和评估这些教学策略对学生批判性思维倾向的影响具有一定难度。因此，我们的目标是回顾已发表的文献，探讨针对护理学生批判性思维技能和能力的现有教学策略和成果评估。
我们的范围综述将根据 Arksey 和 O'Malley 的范围研究框架进行。搜索策略将与经验丰富的图书馆员合作制定，并根据每个数据库进行调整，例如 CINAHL、PubMed、PsycINFO、ERIC 和 ERC。2019 年 7 月 17 日，在 CINAHL 中进行了初步搜索。符合我们目标的、具有定性、定量或混合方法设计并进行的同行评审已发表研究将有资格入选。根据其研究设计，对纳入的研究进行质量评估。使用标准化的提取表格对数据进行图表绘制。将通过主题分析呈现定性数据，并通过描述性数值分析呈现定量数据。最后，将咨询护理教育者和护理学生，以验证范围综述的研究结果。
根据《瑞典伦理审查法》（2003:460），这项研究不需要地区伦理审查机构的伦理批准，因为它不包括任何针对生物材料或敏感信息的原始经验数据。研究结果将用于为未来的研究提供信息，该研究旨在开发一种针对护理学生批判性思维技能和能力的教学策略的教育干预措施，并随后对其进行评估。
