Measurement of critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and clinical judgment in culturally diverse nursing students – A literature review

Abstract

Carter, Creedy, and Sidebotham (2015), in their review of tools to measure critical thinking in nursing and midwifery students, noted that the measurement of critical thinking in some of the studies reviewed may have been influenced by the impact of culture on different learning environments.[...]it is important that any tools used to measure critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and clinical judgment are appropriately culturally contextualized during the translation process (Hwang et al., 2010; Shin et al., 2015a; Shin et al., 2014; Yu et al., 2013).2 Search strategies Electronic databases were searched for papers related to measurement tools that have been used to measure critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and/or clinical judgment in nursing students from diverse cultures.[...]of her research, she developed a “framework” with a core category of “Fitting Things Together” and identified stages that contribute to knowing the patient and how clinical judgment situations provide an opportunity for learning at work.Because students from culturally diverse backgrounds have different perspectives, ways of learning, and ways of processing information it will be important that ways of evaluating learning are culturally appropriate (Henze & Zhu, 2012; World Health Organization, n.d.).Hooper, B. L. 2014 Determine if using case studies with videotaped vignettes help facilitate the development of CT in new graduates 18 new graduates 1 group pretest-posttest design used Knowles principles of adult learning; Health Sciences Reasoning Test United States 12.