Ask the expert: Focus on reassessing nurses’ critical thinking skills
Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, September 25, 2009
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This week, Shelley Cohen, RN, BS, CEN, discusses how to keep the focus on critical thinking skills.
Q: How can we focus on long-term assessment of nurses' critical thinking skills?
A: Considering that healthcare is in constant flux, it makes sense to design a process to continually reassess nurses' ability to think critically. You can directly involve staff in this process by:
- Incorporating critical thinking language and expectations in written documents such as:
- Policies and procedures
- Employee handbook
- Clinical pathways/guidelines
- Job descriptions
- Performance reviews
- Having staff review written expectations annually and offer suggestions for change
- Having staff complete self-assessment sheets
- Requiring staff present examples during their performance reviews of how they have displayed critical thinking in their patient care
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