title: Cognitive skills & development competencies for conducting research critiques.
abstract: As the nursing profession expands its unique scientific body of knowledge, it is essential that all professional nurses become capable of evaluating the scientific and clinical merits of this information generated by nursing research. Three developmental levels of research critique skills are delineated by the nurse reader's competencies: novice, intermediate, and advanced. Each developmental level is described in relation to five cognitive skills which underlie the proposed competencies: knowledge, comprehension, analysis, evaluation, and synthesis.
authors.forename: G K
authors.initials: GK
authors.lastname: Millor
authors.forename: R F
authors.initials: RF
authors.lastname: Levin
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Carter
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Doswell
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Jacobson
authors.forename: L M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Shortridge
mesh_terms: D004506:Education, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D009726:Nurses; D015399:Nursing Research