A study on learning flow, critical thinking and communication skills in nursing students

Abstract

This study measures the critical thinking and communication skills in nursing students. And the relationships among critical thinking and communication skills are investigated. The data was collected by questionnaires form 104 nursing students. Data were analyzed by Pearson correlations coefficient with the SPSS Win 15.0 program. Results show that Critical thinking and communication skills showed that there were differences according to GPA. Critical thinking and communication skill has positive correlation. This study suggests that nursing educators should build strategies to support students to have critical thinking and communication skill for nursing education.