Safety in numbers 5: Evaluation of computer-based authentic assessment and high fidelity simulated OSCE environments as a framework for articulating a point of registration medication dosage calculation benchmark

Nurse Education in Practice

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Sabin, Mike ^a   Weeks, Keith W ^b   Rowe, David A ^c   Hutton, B Meriel ^d   Coben, Diana ^e   Hall, Carol ^f   Woolley, Norman ^b  

^a NHS EDUCATION FOR SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^d KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assessment; Evaluation; Measurement; Medication dosage calculation; Numeracy; Reliability; Validity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DOSE CALCULATION; EDUCATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; NURSING EDUCATION; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; UNITED KINGDOM;

BENCHMARKING; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DRUG DOSAGE CALCULATIONS; EDUCATION, NURSING; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; HUMANS; NURSING EDUCATION RESEARCH; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; PROBLEM SOLVING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCOTLAND; STATE MEDICINE;

EID: 84875380263     PISSN: 14715953     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nepr.2012.10.009     Document Type: Article

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