Abstract

Background: Slums Background: Caring behavior is critical and crucial for nursing practice and the disposition toward critical thinking is required for an effective and competent quality patient care. Aim: examine the relationship between staff nurse’s caring behavior and disposition toward critical thinking in intensive care units. Design: descriptive correlational design was utilized in this study. Study was carried out in medical critical care units at new kaser El Ainy hospital. Subjects: Convenient sample of staff nurses (No=70) who were working in the selected critical care units was constituted the study sample. Tools: two tools were used for data collection: California critical thinking disposition Inventory and caring behavior inventory. Results: The study findings conclude that there was no correlation between total caring behavior and total critical thinking. Recommendations: It is recommended that nursing education should emphasize a curriculum related to caring behavior to enhance nursing student’s disposition toward critical thinking. The nurse leaders should act as a role model in demonstrating caring behavior, as well as using critical thinking skills including being a problem solver and decision maker

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