title: Teaching critical thinking through a health-promotion contract.
abstract: Critical thinking is an important topic in nursing education today. The authors describe an assignment, based on the steps of the nursing process, in which students use critical-thinking skills to develop, implement, and evaluate a personal health-promotion contract. The assignment allows students to integrate health promotion, behavioral contracting, and critical-thinking concepts from the dual perspective of the nurse and the patient.
authors.affiliation: University of Arizona College of Nursing, Tucson, USA. feingold@rn1.nursing.arizona.edu
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Feingold
authors.forename: L J
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Perlich
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000379:methods*; D005246:Feedback; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D015397:Program Evaluation; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D013850:Thinking