title: Infusing teaching thinking skills into subject-area instruction.
abstract: Students can be taught clinical reasoning actively with the adaptation of the infusion approach for "teaching of" thinking. The authors demonstrate the "teaching of" critical thinking strategies for diagnostic decisions. The instructor uses a thinking map and models the process of diagnosis step by step. Working in small groups, students practice, monitor, and revise their strategies of clinical reasoning.
authors.affiliation: Nursing Section, Purdue University North Central, Westville, Indiana, USA.
authors.forename: W M
authors.initials: WM
authors.lastname: Su
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Masoodi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kopp
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Klonowski
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000592:standards*; D003663:Decision Trees; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007388:Internal Medicine / Q000193:education; D008128:Logic; D017145:Models, Educational; D009736:Nursing Process; D013527:Perioperative Nursing / Q000193:education; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D013850:Thinking