Schell K
Department of Nursing, College of Health and Nursing Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark.
Nurse Educ. 1998 Sep-Oct;23(5):8-12. doi: 10.1097/00006223-199809000-00009.
Although critical thinking is an essential student skill, strategies that promote critical thinking are not always employed in nursing education. Fostering student questioning is one strategy that can be integrated in both the classroom and clinical setting. Some research results indicate that student questioning improves problem solving. However, students told to seek answers must first learn to ask questions. Students can be taught and encouraged to question through a variety of methods the author discusses in this article.