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AACN: CT is Essential for Baccalaureate Nursing

The American Association of Colleges of Nurses’ definition of critical thinking as published in their Essentials of Baccalaureate Nursing states: Critical thinking underlies independent and interdependent decision making. Critical thinking includes questioning, analysis, synthesis, interpretation, inference, inductive and deductive reasoning, intuition, application, and creativity. Washington, DC: American Association of Colleges of Nursing; 1998.

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