A systematic review of clinical assessment for undergraduate nursing students

Nurse Education Today

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 347-359

  Wu, Xi Vivien ^a,b   Enskär, Karin ^b   Lee, Cindy Ching Siang ^a   Wang, Wenru ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b JÖNKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Assessment standards; Clinical assessment practices; Clinical assessment tool; Clinical competence; Preceptorship; Undergraduate nursing students

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION; HUMAN; NURSING EDUCATION; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; NURSING STUDENT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION, NURSING, BACCALAUREATE; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; HUMANS; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; PRECEPTORSHIP; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STUDENTS, NURSING;

EID: 84921388172     PISSN: 02606917     EISSN: 15322793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nedt.2014.11.016     Document Type: Review

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