Questioning for Teaching in Clinical Nursing Practice

Abstract

Teaching in clinical nursing practice, a small group learning, focuses on application of theory into practice. This requires students to integrate critical thinking skill and nursing knowledge to provide nursing care. A completion of studying using critical thinking for a student is a result of good questioning of instructors. Identifying problems, using appropriate questions and using questions to stimulate reasoning skill lead students to expand their intellectual and the 21^st century learning skills. Good questions would help students to obtain a high level of learning objectives.  

Questioning in clinical nursing practice can be performed both in group and individually. Also, it needs several of types of questions to stimulate thinking skill according to each cognitive education objective levels: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis and evaluation. The question techniques that stimulate students to answer the questions by using self-directed learning method and reflective thinking are essential. These process provide students to reconsider, evaluate and analyze themselves in clinical learning situations and revise or improve their clinical practice performance. Still, evaluation of the outcome is the final process that inform the achievement of learning objectives. Observation, interviewing, reviewing assigned papers and anecdotal record are useful techniques to get a complete information of student learning behaviors.  Moreover, providing feedback to student are crucial for teachers to maintain learning behavior of the students.