La formación de profesionales reflexivos y la práctica de Enfermería

Abstract

In this essay, the need to foster the reflexive thinking among nursing students since, as future nursing professionals, they will require critical thinking skills as well as those disposition qualities to it considering the nursing practice is performed in unique situations of uncertainty, instability as well as value conflicts. It’s important to point out that the possibility of a different sort of teaching of the nursing process under this perspective can represent the application of the reflexive thinking. It concludes stating some strategies that nursing teachers will have to foster among students for them to develop critical thinking as a judgment creator as well making decision. The strategies point out the development of specific knowledge; the progressive and experiential learning; the general and specific competences of critical thinking; a different approach of teaching the nursing process that foster clinical reasoning and the inferential diagnosis. The skills to set intellectual and professional standards which should be a characteristic of professional nurses.