Critical Thinking Ability for Respiratory Ward Staff from King Abdulaziz Medical City (KAMC), Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Journal Title: International Journal of Medical Science and Innovative Research (IJMSIR) - Year 2018, Vol 3, Issue 7
Abstract
Worldwide, in the health care field, it is required to have a high critical thinking ability in order to be successful in the current healthcare environment. National Council for Excellence in Critical Thinking defined critical thinking as “the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered forms, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, troubleshooting, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action.”. In respiratory care, respiratory staff must think critically to make good decisions and figure out solutions in intensive situations. Therefore, respiratory therapy ward staff has to acknowledge the importance of reasoning thinking in their job in order to improve it. One of the advantages of thinking critically in respiratory care is to provide high quality respiratory care to patients. Respiratory staff should have the ability to define patient care issues with a high level of accuracy. There is verity of situations that required critical thinking from the respiratory staff including emergency situations, troubleshooting to respiratory care equipment’s, patient care, and sharing information regarding certain diseases. In addition, research’s evidence showed that the essential of critical thinking is increasing in respiratory care staff since they deal with acutely ill patients, sophisticated equipment and technology, and face complicated ethical questions. Accordingly, measuring critical thinking plays an important role in improving the decision making of individuals at their jobs or training. Consequently, it is important to measure critical thinking ability of respiratory therapy ward staff in order to understand the strength and weakness of them which can easily improve by settings of development plans and goals. However, there is lack of published researches about enhancing respiratory staff critical thinking in Saudi Arabia. Hence, the aim of this study was to see the effect of working in the wards in the respiratory therapy wards staff’s critical thinking.
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Miss. Sara Albishi
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