The evaluation of nursing standardized training to enhance critical thinking in Beijing municipal hospitals

Objective To explore the evaluation of nursing standardized training to enhance critical thinking in Beijing municipal hospitals, and to provide evidence for the revision of this program. Methods Convenience sampling was used to recruit 418 nurses who started their career in 2014. They were divided into two groups equally. 209 nurses from the 3 standardized training pilot hospitals were set up as experimental group, and 209 nurses from 3 non-pilot hospitals were set as control group. Questionnaires were used to evaluate the critical thinking of the training program before and after the intervention. Results After the one-year standardized training, the mean score of critical thinking was improved from (282.57±28.16) to (294.78±29.25), and higher than the non-pilot nurses (283.59±27.33), the difference was statistically significant (all P 0.05). Conclusions Standardized training has a positive effect on improving the critical thinking of nurses, but it needs long-term and systematic training for nurses' specific circumstances, to ensure that different levels of nurses can effectively enhance critical thinking. Key words: Beijing; Municipal hospitals; Nursing standardized training; Critical thinking; Effect evaluation