Metacognition in nurse practitioner students: How nurse educators can best serve their students
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The dynamic and changing healthcare environment requires educators to prepare nurse practitioner students with more than knowledge and skills. Healthcare providers need to be prepared with enhanced skills related to critical thinking and decision-making. Metacognition training has been used by many disciplines within and outside of healthcare to prepare individuals to work in an environment that has volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity, and delayed feedback (VUCAD).
Metacognition learning aids students in becoming more aware of their self-regulatory process and becoming more proficient learners (Colthorpe et al., 2018; Delle Site, 2019). Further, utilizing a metacognitive approach enables nurse practitioner students to reflect on their decision-making, the basis for their decision-making, and reach a higher conceptual level. However, there is a lack of knowledge in the literature addressing knowledge transfer during students' academic journeys and from academia to practice (Delle Site, 2019).
