Developing assessment of Emergency Nurse Practitioner competence - A pilot study

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 425-432

  Mason, Suzanne ^a,b   Fletcher, Alan ^a   McCormick, Simon ^a   Perrin, Julie ^a   Rigby, Alan ^b  

^a SHEFFIELD TEACHING HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Competence; Education; Emergency Nurse Practitioner; Objective structured clinical examination

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPETENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY WARD; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NURSE; NURSING; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION, NURSING, CONTINUING; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; EMERGENCIES; EMERGENCY NURSING; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL; ENGLAND; HUMANS; NURSE PRACTITIONERS; PILOT PROJECTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 18644382770     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2005.03408.x     Document Type: Article

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