Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development

This study was done to identify the relationship among Nunchi, Communication Skills, and Critical Thinking Disposition in nursing students.

The subjects of this study were second-year nursing students going to the four-year nursing school located in W city, who understood the purpose of this study and had voluntary participation. A self-report type survey was conducted targeting a total of 164 of nursing students in a city from Nov 26, 2018 to Nov 30, 2018.

As the results of the study, the relationship between the Nunchi and Critical Thinking Disposition (r=.64, p<.001), the Communication Skills and Critical Thinking Disposition (r=.71, p<.001), the Nunchi and Critical Thinking Disposition (r=.74, p<.001) showed a statistically significant positive correlation.

Therefore, it is necessary to develop and improve nursing students’ communication skills and critical thinking disposition as main competency factors of nursing education by activating a variety of case learning or simulation education.