DEVELOPMENT OF AN EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM TO FOSTER LOGICAL THINKING IN NURSING STUDENTS

本研究的目的是开发一种计算机软件，用于培养护理学生的逻辑思维，并将其纳入护理教育中。为了构建该软件的基础，我们进行了一项初步研究，以阐明针对护士的推理结构。初步研究的结果表明，需要对专家护士的推理过程进行更深入的调查。因此，为此目的进行了一次调查。结果揭示了专家护士推理过程的特征，以及决定护士在与患者互动时的即时反应的推理特征。随着护士获得更多的信息，推理的发展和形成也变得很清楚。在此基础上，构建了构成软件核心的规则集。在模拟了现象学数据会产生什么样的推理后，积累了一个基于现象→推理→基础→否定4个要素的规则集。然后将规则集合并到系统中，创建用户界面，并将其制作成应用程序。结合这项任务，进行了一项调查，以澄清护理学生的思维发展过程。很明显，护生的思维发展到能够从不同的角度把握一个现象，并通过词汇习得变得更善于表达。诸如完成基本训练和了解护理过程等因素促进了这一发展过程。将其作为培养逻辑思维和评价的教材，同时根据学生思维过程的发展，考虑如何以及何时使用该软件，是接下来需要评估的问题。

The aim of this study was to develop computer software that could be used as a method to develop logical thinking in nursing students and be incorporated into nursing education. In order to construct the base for this software, a pilot study was conducted to elucidate the reasoning structure that is specific to nurses. The result of the pilot study suggested the need to make a much more through investigation concerning the reasoning process in expert nurses. A survey was therefore conducted for this purpose. The results revealed characteristic features of the reasoning process in expert nurses in addition to features of the reasoning that determines nurses' immediate responses in interactions with patients. It also became clear that reasoning develops and forms as additional information is made available to nurses. Based on these results, the rule set to form the core of the software was constructed. After simulating what kind of reasoning would be produced from phenomenological data, a set composed of rules based on 4 elements (phenomenon→reasoning→basis→negation) was accumulated. The rule set was then incorporated into the system, the user interface was created, and made into an application. In conjunction with this task, a survey was conducted to clarify the process of thought development in nursing students. It became apparent that the thinking of nursing students developed in terms of being able to grasp a phenomenon from different perspectives and became more expressive through vocabulary acquisitin. Factors such as completing basic training and gaining an understanting of the nursing process, contributed to this developmental process. Its application as a teaching material to foster logical thinking and assessment, while considering how and when this software should be used in accordance with development in the student's thinking process, are the next issues to be evaluated.