Developing scholarly thinking using mind maps in graduate nursing education.

نویسندگان

  • Suhasini Kotcherlakota
  • Lani Zimmerman
  • Ann M Berger
چکیده

Two broad issues that beginning graduate nursing students face are identifying a research focus and learning how to organize complex information. Developing a mind map is 1 strategy to help students clarify their thinking and lay the foundation for in-depth expertise related to their research focus, review of the literature, and conceptual framework. The authors discuss their use of mind mapping combined with feedback using a fishbowl technique.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Nurse educator

دوره 38 6  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2013