background: enhancing nursing students’ critical thinking is a challenge faced by nurse educators. this study aimed at determiningthe effect of clinical concept mapping on discipline-based critical thinking of nursing students. materials and methods: in this quasi-experimental post-test only design, a convenient sample of 4th year nursing students (n = 32)participated. they were randomly divide...

abstract introduction: critical thinking skills as thinking and judging self-regulation are purposeful and result in solving problems and making appropriate decisions. therefore, the importance of this subject and its role in the nursing profession and the clinical decision, this study was done to compare critical thinking skills of nursing students in continuous licentiate and bachelor- licent...

abstractthe present study aimed to explore the impact of teaching critical thinking skills through applying debate on the use of communicative strategies. at first 60 intermediate students were selected and placed in two homogenous groups of control and experimental through passing nelson test. then, a critical thinking appraisal was run to the two groups both before and after the treatment. th...

critical thinking is one of the major aims of education, and its prerequisite is to have thoughtful teachers with critical thinking viewpoints. there have been numerous models for critical thinking including two major psychological and socio-political ones. the present article has considered a comparative study of critical thinking from the viewpoints of robert ennis and henry giroux considerin...

introduction: critical thinking as a process of purposeful self-regulatory judgment leads to problem solving and correct decision making in individuals. in the modern world, health care faces rapid change and burgeoning amount of knowledge. possessing critical thinking is essential for individuals in health care centers, specially when they are forced to solve clinical problems. the aim of this...

The subject-matter of this article is the ‘systemacity of law’ concept and its methodological feedback. Continuing a series of articles on this subject, the author focuses on the internal rationality of claims about the systemic character of law. This rationality is embedded in the legal thinking of Modernity and reveals itself in the belief in the rational nature of law. According to this styl...

purpose: to present a case of bilateral enlargement of eyelids in 29 year old man with sclromyxedema syndrome. case report: a 29- year- old man was referred to labbafinegad clinic with bilateral enlargment of upper and lower eyelids, and foreign body sensation since 9 year ago. investigating of patients history show renal deasese(hematuria ) since 9 year ago. in systemic examination the patient...

lupus erythematosus (le) is an autoimmune disease. the mortality rate and causes of death are different in various countries. the present study is done to find out the causes of mortality in the systemic lupus erythematosus (sle) patients in lupus unit of rheumatology research center and other wards of shariati hospital. this study was retrospective according to medical records of patients who ...

Complexity science has generated significant insight regarding the interrelatedness of factors and actors constituting our real world and emergent effects from such interrelationships. But the translation of such rich insight towards developing appropriate tools for improving real world situations of change and uncertainty provides a further significant challenge. Systems thinking in practice i...

Leadership Perceptions Leadership long has been a focus of higher education (Astin & Astin, 2000). Although defined in different ways, it resonates as a principle within many institutions. While the commitment to leadership development has remained strong, different perspectives on leadership have gained prominence, and many models, perceptions, theories, and definitions concerning leadership a...