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

In 1997, a revised system was introduced at the University of Glamorgan, Wales, to assess
student nurse clinical competency. This was firstly as a result of concerns that the previous …

This paper reports findings from a study funded by the National Board for Nursing, Midwifery
and Health Visiting for Scotland to test selected nursing and midwifery clinical competence …

This paper reports on some outcomes of a research study evaluating a new assessment
framework of clinical competence used in undergraduate nursing programmes in the Mid …

Assessment of student nurses' clinical skills is an important issue in nurse education.
However suitable instruments are difficult to locate, and also to design. In the course of this …

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 …

Competency assessment is a paradigm that is common in the healthcare environment and
this being particularly true within the nursing profession. Demonstration of competence is …

Assessment of competence is characterised by ambiguity and inconsistency despite its
critical role in assessing readiness for entry to the nursing profession. In 2012 the …

This paper describes a collaborative project conducted by the three principal universities in
Dublin to implement and evaluate a competence assessment tool for use by nursing …

Norman, I., Watson, R., Calman, L., Redfern, S., Murrells, T., 2000. Evaluation of the validity
and reliability of methods to assess the competence to practise of pre-registration nursing …