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Relationship Between Critical Thinking and Health Sciences Research Utilization

NURSING: Profetto-McGrath J, Smith KB, Hugo K, Patel A, Dussault B. (2008). Nurse educators' critical thinking dispositions and research utilization. Nurse Education Practice, Aug 11. Epub ahead of print. This paper reports research utilization behaviours and critical thinking dispositions of a random sample of nurse educators across a western Canadian province (n=287). The majority (82.1%) of nurse educators scored in the 280-350 range on the CCTDI, with 15.4% of them scoring above 350, indicating high critical thinking dispositions. Nurse educators scored quite high on overall research utilization (mean=4.4/5). There was a statistically-significant correlation between nurse educators' total critical thinking dispositions and all measures of research utilization.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Do you have a critical thinking test for nursing and health sciences?

Yes, the Health Sciences Reasoning Test ( HSRT ).

Many studies cite the CCTST. Is there research on the correlation of the HSRT with student success and professional job performance?

The Health Sciences Reasoning Test is about 15 years younger than the generic form of the CCTST, and this accounts for the lag in the published literature. Independent research studi...