Critical Thinking Dispositions and Problem Solving Abilities Among Nursing Students

Abstract

Critical thinking plays an important role in response to the rapidly changing health care environment. The disposition toward critical thinking was considered crucial to a good critical thinker, as a requisite of the core cognitive skills. The ideal critical thinker is "habitually inquisitive well informed, trustful of reason, open minded, flexible, willing to consider and seeking relevant information. Thinking is a special human characteristic. It is one of the most important cognitive abilities and basic element of the learning process. Thinking is essential to living. It includes reasoning, recalling, remembering and encompasses beliefs, opinions and judgments.it can be categorized to four types namely: Problem solving, decision making, creative thinking and critical thinking. This study was aimed to assess the relationship between critical thinking dispositions and problem solving abilities among student of nursing faculty through, assessing critical thinking dispositions among nursing students, assessing problem solving abilities among nursing students and finding out the relationship between critical