Enhancing metacognition through the reflective use of self-regulated learning strategies.

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BACKGROUND:
An important concern of nursing practice and education is the difficulty new graduates experience while making the transition from graduate nurse to practicing nurse.

METHOD:
Using a comparative descriptive design, self-regulated learning strategies were used to enhance metacognitive critical thinking abilities as 32 new graduate nurses reflected during 8-week preceptorship programs.

RESULTS:
Verbal protocol analysis revealed the majority of noun referents as metacognitive with thinking nouns increasing in rank from Week 1 to Week 8, present tense verbs were used most frequently with lower-level thinking phrases. Common themes in the narrative were knowledge observation, thinking strategies, judgments of self-improvement, judgments of competence, judgments of resources, self-reactions, and self-correction strategies.

CONCLUSIONS:
New graduate nurses have unique circumstances to overcome in making a transition to the workplace, and having self-regulatory skills would enable this process. The data suggest nursing education and practice consider self-regulated learning prompts with new graduates to promote thinking strategies.

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Author/s: Kuiper, Ruthanne (R);

Affiliation: Winston-Salem State University, North Carolina 27110, USA.

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article

Journal: Journal of continuing education in nursing (J Contin Educ Nurs), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: -2002 Mar-Apr; vol 33 (issue 2) : pp 78-87

Dates: Created 2002/03/27; Completed 2002/07/19; Revised 2004/11/17;

PMID: 11916343, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)

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