The
overall purpose of phase 3 was to implement the educational programme that was
developed to facilitate the development of critical thinking in the student
nurse. A quasi-experimental design within the quantitative approach for phase 3
was used. The purpose of a quasi-experimental design was to identify and
demonstrate casual relationships, examine relationships and clarify why certain
events happened. The educational programme was implemented over a period of
three days, covering theoretical and practical content. The objectives for this
phase were to select the two groups of final-year student nurses to fit the
quasi experimental design as the experimental and control group; conduct a pre-test on both
the experimental and the control group in Windhoek and Oshakati to determine
their application of critical thinking skills to the management of a given case in an
imaginary case scenario; implement and facilitate the educational programme
over a predetermined period of three days during the second semester of
training for the experimental group in Windhoek and ensure active participation by
participants for the duration of the educational programme. The population for
this study consisted of nursing students in their final year (fourth year) of study at the training hospitals
of Windhoek and Oshakati. Both campuses are incorporated in the Faculty of
Health Sciences. The full population of the fourth-year class at the Windhoek
campus was selected to be part of the experimental group (47 students) and the
students from Oshakati (53 students) formed the control group. The total number
of students amounted to 100 students.
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