Effect of Critical Thinking Educational Program on Nurses Working in Psychiatric and Mental Health Hospital | ||
| Journal of Nursing Science Benha University | ||
| Article 64, Volume 3, Issue 2, July 2022, Pages 986-1000 PDF (1.57 M) | ||
| Document Type: Scientific peer reviewed journal | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/jnsbu.2022.248208 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Shireen Sobhy Hassaneen* 1; Sorayia Ramadan AbdEl-fattah2; Mawaheb Mahmoud Zaki3; Rehab Elsayed Mohammed3 | ||
| 1Instructor of Nursing Department Technical Health institute –Imbaba, Egypt | ||
| 2Mental Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, 6 October University, Egypt | ||
| 3Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Benha University, Egypt | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background Critical thinking is the art of thinking it refers to thinking clearer, precise, accurate, relevant, consistent, and faire. It is the art of constructive criticism; the art of identifying and removing bias, prejudice, and one sidedness of thought; the art of self –directed, in depth, rational learning, and thinking. Aim of study: Was to evaluate the effect of critical thinking educational program on nurses working in psychiatric and mental health hospitals. Design: A quasiexperimental design on group pre\post-test. Setting: This study was conducted at Psychiatric and Mental Health Hospital in Benha City, Qalubia Governorate. Subjects: A purposive sample of 50 nurses would be obtained from nurses working in psychiatric and mental health hospitals at Benha city. Tools of data collection: The data was collected using the following tool. A structured interview questionnaire and consist of two parts. Part 1: Socio-demographic data. Part II: California Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory questionnaire (CCTDI). Results: There were highly statistically significant differences found between the studied nurses' total critical thinking and their socio-demographic characteristics between pre and post program implementation. Also there were highly statistically significant positive correlations found between all the critical thinking subscales pre and post program implementation Conclusion: Most of psychiatric mental health nurses have positive disposition toward critical thinking post program implementation Recommendations: The program developed in this study could be utilized by nursing educators in psychiatric hospitals as a framework in planning function and in evaluating the clinical performance of psychiatric nurses. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Keywords: Critical thinking; Educational program; Psychiatric nurses | ||
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