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Using Learning Outcome Measures to assess Doctoral Nursing Education
Published on: June 21, 2010
Clinical Instructors' Perspectives on the Assessment of Clinical Knowledge of Undergraduate Nursing Students: A
Li-Chin Chen1, Chun-Chih Lin2,3, Chin-Yen Han3,4
1Department of Nursing, New Taipei Municipal TuCheng Hospital (Built and Operated by Chang Gung Medical Foundation), New Taipei City 236, Taiwan.
Abstract:
This study aimed to determine clinical instructors' perceptions of the assessments used to evaluate the clinical knowledge of undergraduate nursing students. This study uses a descriptive phenomenological approach. Purposive sampling was used to recruit sixteen clinical instructors for semi-structured interviews between August and December 2019. All interviews were audio recorded and transcribed verbatim. Data were analyzed using a modified Colaizzi's seven-step method. Four criteria were used to ensure the study's validity: credibility, transferability, dependability, and confirmability. Three themes were identified in the clinical instructors' views on evaluating the clinical performance of student nurses: familiarity with students, patchwork clinical learning, and differing perceptions of the same scoring system. The study results suggest a need for a reliable, valid, and consistent approach to evaluating students' clinical knowledge. If the use of patchwork clinical internships for student nurses is unavoidable, a method for assessing student nurses' clinical performance that requires instructor consensus is necessary.
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