A systematic review of selected evidence on developing nursing students' critical thinking through problem-based learning.

摘要: Rapidly changing developments and expanding roles in healthcare environment requires professional nurses to develop critical thinking. Nursing education strives facilitate students' thinking through the appropriate instructional approaches. Problem-based learning (PBL) is a student-centered approach which enables students work cooperatively small groups for seeking solutions situations/problems. The systematic review was conducted provide available evidence on developing nursing PBL. computerized searches from 1990-2006 CINAHL, Proquest, Cochrane library, Pubmed etc were performed. All studies addressed differences among PBL considered. Two independent reviewers assessed eligibility of each study, its level methodological quality. As result, only ten retrieved, they were: one RCT with Jadad quality score 3, nonrandomized control two quasi-experimental non-controlled pretest-posttest design, six descriptive studies. this did not supportive Clearly, there need additional research larger sample size high clarify effects development within educational context.