A 68-year-old woman with pneumonia checks into the hospital short of breath, the skin around her lips tinged blue. That’s a scenario the Associate Degree Nursing students at Central Carolina Community ...

This article was originally published in 2012. To a patient, it may look like a nurse is touching a wrist, changing a bandage, reading a chart and asking random questions. What she’s also doing is ...

In nursing school, you learn to avoid mistakes at all costs, as medical errors can result in physical injury or even death.

Critical thinking springs from the notion of reflective thought proposed by Dewey (1933), who borrowed from the work of philosophers such as William James and Charles Peirce. Reflective thought was ...