What If? What Else? What Then?
A Critical Thinking Game

           For Nursing Education and Nursing Staff Development

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KATHLEEN WALSH FREE, ARNP-BC, MSN, RN-C

MASTER of SCIENCE in NURSING EDUCATION

BALL STATE UNIVERSITY

ADULT NURSE PRACTITIONER CERTIFICATION-POSTMASTER'S

UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE

CLINICAL PROFESSOR OF NURSING

INDIANA UNIVERSITY SOUTHEAST

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Consultations

Subject Matter Expert (SME) for MyNursingLab (Pearson): Reviewer for online content for: Adams (2009): Pharmacology for Nurses. LeMone (2009): Medical-Surgical Nursing: Critical Thinking in Client Care Edition; Kozier and Erb (2009): Fundamentals of Nursing.                                   

Content reviewer for Osborn, Watson & Wraa (2009):Medical-Surgical Nursing: Preparation for Practice. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.

Content reviewer for LeMone, P. and Burke, K. (2009). Medical-Surgical Nursing, 5th Edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.

Content reviewer:  Black, J. and Hawks, J. (2008). Medical-Surgical Nursing, Clinical Management for Positive Outcomes.8th Edition. Philadelphia: Elsevier.

Content reviewer for Porth, C.M.(2006).Pathophysiology: Concepts of Altered Health States, 7th Edition. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins.

Publications

Morrison, S., Free, K.W. , and Newman, M. (2006). Do Progression and Remediation Policies Improve NCLEX-RN Pass Rates? Computers, Informatics, Nursing, 24, Supplement 3:54S-56S.

Morrison, S. & Free, K. (2001). Writing Multiple-choice Test Questions That Promote and Measure Critical Thinking. The Journal of Nursing Education, 40, (1)17-24.

 

 

 

 

Electronic Publications

Content writer: On-line critical thinking case studies to accompany Brunner and Suddarth’s Medical-Surgical Nursing, 9th edition (2002) and 10th edition (2005).

Content writer: Critical Thinking Tutorial (2001). Computer assisted instruction from the College of DuPage.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Presentations

Poster Presentation: "Active Learning in the Clinical Setting. " Nursing Education in the Rockies, Breckinridge, CO, July 2007.

Presentation:  "Active Learning: Critical Thinking in Classroom and Clinical Settings." Drexel University Nursing Education Institute, Atlantic City, NJ, June 2005.

Presentation: “Beyond knowledge: Test questions with a critical thinking focus” National Association of Hospital Based Schools and Colleges of Nursing, Philadelphia, PA, March, 2004.