OSCE best practice guidelines-applicability for nursing simulations.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Objective structured clinical examinations (OSCEs) have been used for many years within healthcare programmes as a measure of students' and clinicians' clinical performance. OSCEs are a form of simulation and are often summative but may be formative. This educational approach requires robust design based on sound pedagogy to assure practice and assessment of holistic nursing care. As part of a project testing seven OSCE best practice guidelines (BPGs) across three sites, the BPGs were applied to an existing simulation activity. The aim of this study was to determine the applicability and value of the OSCE BPGs in an existing formative simulation.

Methods

A mixed methods approach was used to address the research question: in what ways do OSCE BPGs align with simula

SUBMITTER: Kelly MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5806284 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature