The Practice and Experience of Improving the Ability of Clinical Critical Thinking in Associated Nursing Students

Objective: To improve the ability of clinical critical thinking in associated degree nursing students of operation room. Methods: The following measures were carried out,including investigating the situation of teaching and learning through an investigation on 30 nursing students with the self-designed questionnaire about the teaching contents of common disinfector,means of sterilization and teaching-quality of clinical teachers,enhancing the management and training of clinical teachers with heuristic and participant teaching model,evaluating the effect of teaching through teaching round,practice of periopeative nursing records and examination. Results: As a result,the students' satisfaction with clinical teachers increased from83.6% to 97.1%,the excellent rate of observing and thinking ability exams achieved to 95.3%. Conclusion: It was an effective method to train excellent clinical teachers and apply heuristic and participant teaching mode for the improvement of nursing students'ability of clinical comprehensive competencies.