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Nov 12-13, 2018 | Paris, France
Joint Event
Nutraceuticals and Food Sciences
International Conference on 27th International Conference on
Nursing and Healthcare &
Journal of Food science and Nutrition | Volume 1
Health care educational programs assume that students’
critical thinking skills improve as a result of moving
through the program. Previous studies have investigated the
development of critical-thinking skills in different health care
professional students, however, there is no enough evidence
found in Saudi Arabia till this moment that measure nursing
program effect on graduate’ critical thinking skills. The
ultimate goal would be to enhance nursing students’ critical
thinking skills and encourage using educational strategies
that will found to have an association with critical thinking
disposition, accordingly educators need to be familiar with the
different teaching and learning strategies that enhance the
development of critical thinking in particular creative process
oriented teaching methods that will reduce the dichotomy
between professional knowledge and university knowledge.
Therefore the aim of the current study is to: Assess the critical
thinking dispositions skills of nursing graduates at College of
Nursing KSAU HS and to assess the relationship between the
nursing graduates’ critical thinking disposition, their learning
preference and the teaching strategies used during the
program. Data is being Collected from three campuses in the
university where graduate nursing students fill in the California
Critical Thinking Desposition Scale (CTDS), Teaching strategies
assessment sheet and sociodemographic information sheet.
Priliminary data showed that majority of the graduates
(72.8%) perceived that the program contributed to their
critical thinking skills, mean total CTDS was 290 ± 21.8 with the
lowest score of 247 and the highest score was 342. Interactive
learning strategies such as nursing round, interactive lecture,
reflective journal, simmulation and brain storming reported to
promote critical thinking.
Speaker Biography
Amel Abouelfettoh is an assistant Professor, assistant dean for clinical affairs, College of
Nursing KSAU-HS Al Ahsa, KSA. She earned her a joint PhD degree in Nursing from Cairo
and Case Western Reserve University; Dr. Amel was a research fellow at the Bolton
School of Nursing, Cleveland USA. Abouelfettoh produced 13 publications, received
extra-mural fund from research centers and has presented papers and scholarly work
in numerous national and International conferences.
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Amel Abouelfettoh
Hanan Gabry
King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Saudi Arabia
Assessment of nursing graduates’ critical thinking disposition skills as an intended
learning outcome (ilo) of bsn program at ksau-hs