Background The assessment of nursing students' nursing competence is a matter of concern
worldwide and the complexity of assessing students' clinical competence has challenged …

IN AN ATMOSPHERE IN WHICH DISGRUNTLED STUDENTS APPEAL TO THEIR
LEGISLATORS FOR INTERVENTION AND FACULTY GIVE FEW UNSATISFACTORY …

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 …

Clinical experiences are recognized as a critical aspect of nursing education, highlighting
the importance of the perspectives of those providing clinical instruction. The aim of this …

Clinical Instruction and Evaluation: A Teaching Resource, Third Edition is designed to guide
instructors through the learning process by providing clinical nurses with the theoretical …

Nurse education has traditionally relied on clinical placements to provide nursing students
with the 'hands-on'experience that is not possible to teach in a classroom setting. However …

In Australia and Norway final examinations to determine eligibility for registration as a nurse
were discontinued during the period when nurse education moved into the higher education …

Clinical teaching in nursing is a complex phenomenon that lacks a coherent theoretical base
and is perplexing to novices, who tend to teach as they were taught. Nursing educators must …

This paper reports on a component of a research project that was designed to identify the
attributes of clinical settings which support learning. Thirty final semester nursing students …