This is the first of two papers which address aspects of the findings of a large scale study
commissioned by the English National Board which set out to examine the impact of Project …

Background The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)(2006) has
projected that by the year 2020 the shortage of nurses in the United States will increase to …

Assessing practice of student nurses: methods, preparation of assessors and student views
Aims. To describe the methods of measuring progress in achieving competence of …

Nursing programmes in the United States of America are based on a conceptual framework.
Not only do faculty and students ascribe to the necessity of such programmes but the …

Evaluation research: the need for multiple criteria The Research Unit was established in
1968 and one of its primary functions since then has been an attempt to evaluate …

Abstract Chapelhow et al.(2005) stated nursing assessments are non-static. One of the
aspects of the nursing assessment procedure is that a set of customised results are agreed …

This study was undertaken in response to concerns raised by Duffy (2003) that assessors of
practice were reluctant to fail student nurses in assessments. This generated doubts about …

Theory/practice issues have a long‐standing history in nurse education, and are a chronic
source of controversy to which there is no easy or perfect solution We have argued that it is …

Throughout this series, emphasis has been placed on positioning assessment centrally to
the process of community-based nursing education and practice reform. Developing an …