Title: Learning environment for improving Critical Thinking skills in nursing domain

Authors: Kazuhisa Seta, Hiroki Satake, Motohide Umano, Mitsuru Ikeda

Addresses: Graduate School of Science, Osaka Pref. University, 1-1, Gakuen-cho, Naka-ku, Sakai, Osaka, 599-8531, Japan. ' Graduate School of Science, Osaka Pref. University, 1-1, Gakuen-cho, Naka-ku, Sakai, Osaka, 599-8531, Japan. ' Graduate School of Science, Osaka Pref. University, 1-1, Gakuen-cho, Naka-ku, Sakai, Osaka, 599-8531, Japan. ' School of Knowledge Science, JAIST, Asahi-dai, Nomi, Ishikawa, 923-1292, Japan

Abstract: For advance of the quality of medical care, nurses must perform Critical Thinking (CT) processes to clarify the evidence of one|s own decision-making explicitly and to validate it. To train CT skills, it is important to analyse characteristics of CT task as a base of our learning scheme design. In this paper, we firstly analyse the characteristics of CT to specify design principle for our learning system based on the analysis. Then, we propose a learning system which facilitates valid decision-making processes. And then, we illustrate a scenario of a learner|s system utilisation to encourage CT learning.

Keywords: critical thinking; meta-cognition; learning environment; cognitive modelling; EBN; evidence-based nursing; decision making; healthcare.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAIP.2008.024776

International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms, 2008 Vol.1 No.2, pp.196 - 210

Published online: 30 Apr 2009 *

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