[Current Status and Issues of the Pre-Clinical Training OSCE in Acute Care Nursing Education]

Enabling students to acquire practical skills that can be utilized after graduation has become an agenda for basic nursing education since the start of Japan's "super-aging society" and the sophistication of modern medical treatment. Nursing schools are attempting to introduce the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) in an attempt to integrate this important agenda. OSCE has been implemented at our school of nursing since 2014 in the first semester for third year students as a part of the integrated course for clinical training. E-learning has been utilized to help students study for the examination, and, according to students' subjective evaluations, a certain level of effect has been confirmed. However, as we have new agendas for each school year, adjustments need to be made every year. We have made 3 adjustments so far since 2017. In this paper we report on our implementation of the OSCE in the year 2014, evaluations and adjustments to the OSCE in 2014 from the perspectives of 1) learning support, 2) evaluation methods, and 3) the application of the OSCE.