Summary C946_paper Critical Thinking in Mental Health

C946_paper Critical Thinking in Mental Health Executive Summary This will be addressed in 947 Introduction My curriculum proposal is to incorporate critical thinking skills into NURS 420 by using standardized patient simulations. I have been a nurse for more than 15 years, and I worked as a medical assistant in a family practice office for 20 years before becoming a nurse. In my experience and dealing with new nursing students, we do not get enough experience with mental health patients. One of the many reasons is there is not enough mental health facilities to allow all nursing students the clinical time needed. Students are anxious when taking care of a mental health disorder, and don’t know how to properly assess that patient. Therefore, we don’t know how to use our critical thinking skills to assess them or even know what might be coming next. As an intensive care nurse and emergency room nurse, mental health patients of some sort come under your care on a daily basis, and we need to know how to assess them and not be scared. My proposal will show a way to incorporate critical thinking skills while learning to assess a patient using standardized patient simulations. Literature Review After I decided on my curriculum gap, I found 10-15 articles that would help students learn critical thinking and how we can incorporate the need for standardized patient simulations to learn critical thinking skills. The first article “The Correlation of Critical Thinking Disposition and Approaches to Learning among Baccalaureate Nursing Students.