Nurdan Gezer
Adnan Menderes University, Turkey
Title: Inference factors of critical thinking dispositions and skills of nurses working in intensive care units
Biography
Biography: Nurdan Gezer
Abstract
Aim: The aim of this study is to define and evaluate in a university hospital of intensive care units of nurses working The California Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory (CCTDI) related factors. Methodology: The population of the study consisted of 60 nurses. The sample size was 40 nurses who volunteered to participate in the study. The data are collected in 2012 year. Socio demographic Features Data Form and CCTDI, were used as data collection tools. This inventory is inquisitiveness, open-mindedness, systematicity, analyticity, truth-seeking, critical thinking self-confidence, and maturity. Statistical program were used in evaluation of data and numbers, percentage estimation, arithmetic mean, Kruskal-Wallis Test, t test and Pearson correlation analysis were used. Results:Once total score means are examined, it is seen that the score mean obtained by the nurses was 190.90 ±20.23. CCTDI score means of the nurses taken into the scope of the study reveal that the score mean of the “truth-seeking†subscale was 21.50±5.62; the score mean of the “Openmindedness†subscale was 36.95±7.32; the score mean of the “systematicity†subscale was 19.32±3.56; the score mean of the “Self-confidence†subscale was 27.75±6.02; the score mean of the “İnquisitiveness†subscale was 34.47±6.00. It was determined that there was not statistically significant difference between the nurses’age, study years, incomes level, and education level with the CCDTI scale, means (p>0.05). Conclusion: In this study the low of critical thinking in nursing disposition scale score. Development of critical thinking disposition in nursing must be provided educational opportunities of the institutional and outside the institution.