title: Critical thinking and the nurse-midwifery management process.
abstract: Within recent years, the general educational arena has placed a greater emphasis on the incorporation of critical thinking within student curricula. Critical thinking as a learning tool teaches students the art of reason and logic, and encourages the preparation for dynamic situations that occur outside the classroom. The authors believe that critical thinking and nurse-midwifery are inherently intertwined. To utilize the nurse-midwifery management process in the provision of sound and safe practice, the nurse-midwife must also be a critical thinker. The management process of data gathering, assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation parallels the domains of the critical thinker's process: intellectual standards, modes of reasoning, traits of mind, reasoning abilities, and elements of thought. This article presents similarities between the two models.
authors.affiliation: Department of Reproductive Medicine, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine.
authors.forename: L P
authors.initials: LP
authors.lastname: Hunter
authors.forename: V R
authors.initials: VR
authors.lastname: Lops
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D016294:Models, Nursing; D009721:Nurse Midwives / Q000458:organization & administration; D009736:Nursing Process; D009745:Nursing, Supervisory; D013850:Thinking