Using Simulation to Teach Critical Thinking Skills
Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North AmericaPublished 1 March 2001
Carol Rauen
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Simulation as a teaching strategy appears to hold great promise for teaching critical thinking, but efforts must continue to evaluate this strategy.
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Critical thinking is essential in critical care practice. How to define, measure, and teach thinking are subjects of debate with no clearly proven method for doing so. Simulation as a teaching strategy appears to hold great promise for teaching critical thinking. Sophisticated simulators allow real patient situations to be replicated in a safe environment for practice and learning. Research is needed to support this theory. Dr. Gaba, a pioneer in the use of simulation, said "No industry in which human lives depend on the skilled performance of responsible operators has waited for unequivocal proof of the benefit of simulation before embracing it." Embracing simulation in academic and clinical education is appropriate, but efforts must continue to evaluate this strategy.
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