Nurse education today
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Nurse education today · Mar 2016
How to maintain equity and objectivity in assessing the communication skills in a large group of student nurses during a long examination session, using the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE).
While development, testing, and innovation of the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) are common in the international literature, studies from the United States of America (USA), Australia, and the United Kingdom (UK) predominate. There is little known about OSCE use in European countries, such as Italy, where other than cost analysis, there is little reporting of OSCE use or validation. ⋯ The study confirmed the validity of the OSCE method in ensuring equity and objectivity of communication skills assessment in a large population of nursing students for the purpose of certification throughout the duration of the examination. This has important implications for nurse education and practice as the extent to which OSCE approaches, while deemed objective, are culturally sensitive or valid and reliable across cultures is not clear. This is something that requires further research and examination in this field.
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Nurse education today · Mar 2016
Testing nursing students' clinical judgment in a patient deterioration simulation scenario: Development of a situation awareness instrument.
Situation awareness may be used to operationalize nursing students' clinical judgment of patient deterioration simulation scenarios. ⋯ This instrument appears as a promising research tool, although it still needs to be tested with other populations and in other patient deterioration simulation scenarios.