This article was originally published in 2012. To a patient, it may look like a nurse is touching a wrist, changing a bandage, reading a chart and asking random questions. What she’s also doing is ...

Nursing health assessment is more than a checklist—it’s the foundation for safe, effective, and personalized patient care. By combining systematic physical examination, patient history, and critical ...

Critical thinking springs from the notion of reflective thought proposed by Dewey (1933), who borrowed from the work of philosophers such as William James and Charles Peirce. Reflective thought was ...

I have already raised the issue of the importance of developing emotional intelligence in previous pieces, and today I would like to talk about why critical thinking also matters for ...