Fatemeh Khoshnavay Fomani, Mohammad Ali Cheraghi, Yahya Ghaedi, Rahmatollah Kharazmi Rahimabadi
Department of Education, Farhangian University, Imam Ali (PBUH) Branch, Rasht, Iran.
Department of Educational philosophy, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran.
School of Nursing and Midwifery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
DOI: 10.4236/ojn.2013.37068   PDF    HTML     6,705 Downloads   9,098 Views   Citations

Abstract

To become a professional nurse requires that nurses learn to think in a right way. Thinker nurses strive to be clear, accurate, logical, complete, precise and faire in their practice and manner. In other words, a thinker nurse is a philosopher who has the ability of reasoning, critical and reflective thinking. In many investigations, the role of critical or reflective thinking is explored, but in this review article, we are trying to introduce a comprehensive concept that involves all these elements of thinking skills. It is philosophizing.

Keywords

Philosophizing; Nursing Care; Thinking Skills

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