title: Teaching complex trauma care in a curriculum challenges critical thinking and clinical judgment--how nurses can help.
abstract: Incorporating complex content into a nursing curriculum presents students with the knowledge and thinking skills necessary to enter a career in nursing. A level 1 trauma center is a prefect environment to advance these thinking skills. Nurses act as professional role models and teachers as they clarify and explain their thinking to a student. When experienced nurses show invitational behaviors to students and share their knowledge with them, they ignite a strong desire within the student to progress. Caring, communication, and inclusion are key components that synergize the teaching/learning experience. The development of critical thinking is a continuous process that is best achieved through collaboration between the student, faculty, and professional, experienced nurses.
authors: Thomas Jefferson University, Jefferson School of Nursing, Nursing Education Center, Danville, PA 17822, USA. Margaret.West@jefferson.edu
authors: Margaret Mary
authors: MM
authors: West
authors: Gina
authors: G
authors: Bross
authors: Melissa
authors: M
authors: Snyder
mesh_terms: D003422:Critical Care; D003479:Curriculum; D003657:Decision Making; D004506:Education, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D024802:Nurse's Role; D013338:Students, Nursing; D014193:Trauma Centers; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000451:nursing*