Critical Thinking and Writing for Nursing Students

Third Auflage
ISBN: 978-1-4739-2507-6
Verlag: SAGE PUBN

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 522 g

Reihe: Transforming Nursing Practice

This book is a clear and practical guide to help students develop critical thinking, writing and reflection skills. It explains what critical thinking is and how students should use it throughout their nursing programme. This new edition also provides an innovative new framework that helps students appreciate different levels of critical thinking and reflection to help nursing students appreciate the requirements of degree level study. The book demonstrates the transferable nature of critical thinking and reflection from academic contexts to the real practice of nursing.

Key features

- Clear and straightforward introduction to critical thinking directly written for nursing students, with chapters relating the subject to specific study and practice contexts

- Student examples and scenarios throughout, including running case studies from four nursing students and further annotated examples of student’s work on the website

- Each chapter is linked to the new NMC Standards and Essential Skills Clusters

Autoren/Hrsg.

Price, Bob

Harrington, Anne

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Pflege Krankenpflege

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Part 1 Understanding thinking, reflecting and writing
Critical thinking
Reflecting

Scholarly writing
Part 2 Critical thinking and reflecting in nursing contexts
Making sense of lectures

Making sense of demonstrations, seminars and workshops
Making sense of clinical placements
Making use of electronic media
Part 3 Expressing critical thought and reflection

Critiquing evidence-based literature
Writing the analytical essay

Writing the reflective essay
Building and using your portfolio of learning

Über Autor(innen)

Price, Bob
Bob Price is a healthcare education and training consultant. Formerly, he was Director, Postgraduate Awards in Advancing Healthcare Practice at the Open University. A passionate educator, Bob has assisted students at every level from pre-registration programmes of study up to and including Doctor of Philosophy. Bob’s doctoral thesis was on the negotiation of learning and strategies used by students and tutors to develop scholarly and professional forms of expression.

Harrington, Anne
Anne Harrington is a senior lecturer in Ethics, Public Health, Mentor in Practice, Leadership & Management and Study Skills at Brighton University. Anne has been teaching for nearly 25 years, and is passionate about supporting and enhancing students’ learning experience. Her PhD in Education focused on the students’ experience of academic support in higher education and reported that many of them who had their prior academic education overseas found it difficult to develop critical and analytical thinking when writing their essays.