Critical thinking （CT） is an important content of nursing education. It is also the important symbol of the improvementof overall quality of nursing teachers. In recent years, educational circles pay more and more a...Critical thinking （CT） is an important content of nursing education. It is also the important symbol of the improvementof overall quality of nursing teachers. In recent years, educational circles pay more and more attention to the cultivationof students’ CT ability, take CT and solve the problem as two basic skills of thinking. In the early 1980s, critical societytheory was led into the nursing field. After years of development, CT has become one of research hotspots in today’sinternational nursing. Numerous studies had confirmed that the CT played a significant role in nursing education, clinicalpractice and nursing scientific research. The paper studied the whole status and characteristics of CT emotional tendencyof college nursing teachers, and analyzed potential cause and discussed deeply on the corresponding factors of how toimprove college nursing teachers’ teaching ability and scientific ability. This research adopted random sampling method,in which questionnaires were distributed among some nursing teachers in six universities and 97 nursing teachers. Thestatistical results indicated that nursing teachers had a positive performance towards CT emotional tendency, but notstrong positive, and there were statistical significance among nursing teachers with different age, different length ofservice and reading habit （all P〈0.05）. In a conclusion, the managers of universities should lay stress on the importanceof critical thinking, and provide the development space to enhance the nursing teachers’ CT ability and offer betterservices for nursing student.展开更多
文摘Critical thinking （CT） is an important content of nursing education. It is also the important symbol of the improvementof overall quality of nursing teachers. In recent years, educational circles pay more and more attention to the cultivationof students’ CT ability, take CT and solve the problem as two basic skills of thinking. In the early 1980s, critical societytheory was led into the nursing field. After years of development, CT has become one of research hotspots in today’sinternational nursing. Numerous studies had confirmed that the CT played a significant role in nursing education, clinicalpractice and nursing scientific research. The paper studied the whole status and characteristics of CT emotional tendencyof college nursing teachers, and analyzed potential cause and discussed deeply on the corresponding factors of how toimprove college nursing teachers’ teaching ability and scientific ability. This research adopted random sampling method,in which questionnaires were distributed among some nursing teachers in six universities and 97 nursing teachers. Thestatistical results indicated that nursing teachers had a positive performance towards CT emotional tendency, but notstrong positive, and there were statistical significance among nursing teachers with different age, different length ofservice and reading habit （all P〈0.05）. In a conclusion, the managers of universities should lay stress on the importanceof critical thinking, and provide the development space to enhance the nursing teachers’ CT ability and offer betterservices for nursing student.
