The Effect of Nursing Process Training on Critical Thinking and Quality of Nursing Care

Human beings are not born with critical thinking, and do not acquire this ability to naturally meet their demands to survive. Even, many people never try to learn it. However, critical thinking is easily taught by qualified educators. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of nursing process on the quality of nursing care and critical thinking of students. This quasi-experimental study was performed on 40 nursing students who were randomly divided into two groups of intervention and control groups (20 in each group). The research instrument was demographic information, quality of nursing care and critical thinking questionnaire. The nursing process workshop was held for two days for the experimental group. The critical thinking score of students and the quality of nursing care before and after the intervention were assessed in two groups. There was no significant difference between the mean score of critical thinking and the quality of nursing care in the intervention and control groups before the intervention. The results showed a statistically significant difference in the Mean±SD score of critical thinking between the intervention group (39.99±3.35) and control (24.19±2.3) groups and the quality of care Mean±SD score in the intervention group (37.56±3.4) and control (83.25±2.2) after the intervention. The mean score of critical thinking and nursing care quality in the intervention group after the implementation of the workshop increased significantly. Since the workshop was able to increase the critical thinking and quality of nursing care, the change in the educational process and use of critical thinking in the nursing process, enables nursing students to carry out nursing care with better quality.