Cultural adaptation and validation of an instrument about nursing critical thinking skills

Abstract

Objectives: to validate the Nursing Critical Thinking in Clinical Practice Questionnaire regarding cultural aspects and metric properties. Methods: a methodological research carried out through cross-cultural adaptation, face and content validity, dimensional construct and known groups validity, test-retest reliability and internal consistency. 511 nurses from four hospitals participated in the study, of which 54 participated in retest. Results: the instrument validation for Brazilian Portuguese maintained equivalences, according to the original version. The dimensional validity demonstrated adjustment to the tetrafactorial structure of the original version (GFI=0.69). There were statistically significant differences in critical thinking skills between nurses with graduate degrees and who undertook training, reading articles, developing research and working in an institution with a longer time implementation of the Nursing Process. The instrument showed temporal stability (ICC 073-0.84; p<0.001) and adequate internal consistency (α=0.97). Conclusions: the instrument proved to be valid and reliable for the studied population.

Pensamiento crítico en tutoras de práctica clínica

“…(2) está validado para enfermeras del ámbito clínico y basado en un modelo enfermero. Ha sido traducido en varios idiomas y validado con buenas medidas psicométricas (79,(84)(85)(86)(87).…”

Clinical supervision strategies, learning, and critical thinking of nursing students

“…For the promotion of safe and quality care, nursing students should be trained in a reflective manner to be able to act and respond assertively to the complex tangle of issues that emerge from the clinical context in the face of dynamic, uncertain, unpredictable, and inconstant situations ( 15 , 17 ) . Thus, CT skills are considered essential components for professional responsibility and quality in nursing care ( 11 - 12 , 14 , 16 , 18 - 19 ) .…”