Abstract
Background: Since the evolution in the scope of nursing practice, there has been greater autonomy for nurses and a growing demand for expanded critical thinking and problem-solving abilities. Aim: This study aimed to find out the relationship between the critical thinking disposition of nurse managers and their problem-solving ability in Port - Said hospital Research design: A descriptive correlational design. Setting: the study conducted in two different sectorial hospitals; ministry of health and health insurance hospitals in Port -Said. Subject: this study included 103 nursing (63-nurse manager working at the ministry of health hospitals and 40-nurse manager at health insurance hospitals). Tools: California Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory and Problem– Solving Questionnaire sheet. Result: the relationship between the disposition of the nursing manager toward critical thinking and problem-solving ability was statistically significant (FEP= 0.006). Conclusion: the majority of nurse managers (95.1%) had a negative disposition toward critical thinking also the majority of them (97.1%) had low problem-solving ability Recommendation: Conducting training programs to enhance nursing manager critical thinking disposition and the ability to solve the problem.
Highlights
Today’s nursing environment needs nurses to be creative, analytic, critical thinking.In addition, the current health care settings are required that nurses are able to efficientlyresolve problems faced with
AIM OF STUDY: Aim: This study aimed to find out the relationship between critical thinking disposition of nurse managers and their problem solving ability in Port -Said hospital
Table (2): shows that all of the nurse managers (100%) had a negative disposition toward the open-mindedness, while the majority from inquisitiveness and selfconfidence items (97.1%, 95.1% respectively), on the other hand, less than one-quarter of nursing managers had an ambivalent disposition toward the cognitive maturity and truth-seeking (23.3%, 22.3% respectively)
Summary
Today’s nursing environment needs nurses to be creative, analytic, critical thinking.In addition, the current health care settings are required that nurses are able to efficientlyresolve problems faced with. (2015) considered critical thinking as the „metaphorical bridge‟ between information and action as it is the ability to assess thinking with a vision to improving it, and evaluate that is steeped in questions to allow nurse manager to become aware of the variety of values, assumptions, beliefs, and social configurations of the hospital to make complete decisions through an effective, organized and operative cognitive period This happens in a productive and positive way with the intent to improve overall thinking (Özsoy-Güneş, Güneş, Derelioğluc, and Kırbaşlar, 2015).According to Mccormick, Clark, and Raines (2015) who stated that critical thinking is an educated skill that requires both training and practice. Tools: California Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory and Problem– Solving Questionnaire sheet
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