Tell me if this has happened to you in nursing school ...
Just as an example: you're studying nursing interventions ... and you know they're going to ask test questions like ... what do you do first or what's the priority?
The teacher tells you one thing. Then another teacher (unfortunately we have more than one) tells you to do something else. The text book tells you to do another thing. Or the text book tells you to do one thing first then, a couple of pages down, the text book totally contradicts itself.
And, to make matters worse, the teachers give you handouts or lecture outlines that say the priority intervention is something else !!! Then, you're in clinical and the RN's tell you they do it completely different way in the real world.
Then along comes the test, which they often lift from some other source material that wasn't presented or assigned in class. And, if you get it wrong ... they say you're not critically thinking enough.
While that may be true in some cases, it's often not the case. I'm sorry but this problem goes way beyond critical thinking. You can't critically think if the basics of what they're teaching you is totally contradictory.
I've often researched at least three or more different sources on the exact same problem where you often get three completely different answers. It's like they can't agree on anything and they try excuse it with this critical thinking nonsense.
