The relationship among critical thinking competence and clinical communication competence in higher vocational nursing students

Abstract

Objective To examine the relationships between critical thinking competence and clinical communi-cation competence in higher vocational nursing students.Methods The Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory-Chinese Version (CTDI-CV)and the clinical communication competence scale of nursing students were adopted to investigate 1135 higher vocational nursing students from grade 2009 to 2011 in Zhangzhou Health Vocational College.Results The total score of critical thinking disposition was (278.54±25.98) points,the total score of the clinical communication competence disposition was(86.07±10.06)points in higher vocational nursing students.Correlation analysis showed that the higher vocational nursing students'critical thinking competence had significant positive relationship with the clinical communication competence.Conclusions The critical thinking competence affects the clinical communication competence of higher vocational nursing students,the result suggests that we can set about to build the positive critical thinking competence of higher vocational nursing students for their good clinical communication competence. Key words: Critical thinking; Communication competence; Students; Nursing education