title: Implementing computer simulations as a strategy for evaluating decision-making skills of nursing students.
abstract: This article describes the implementation of a computer assisted instruction clinical simulation, as an evaluation strategy for determining baccalaureate students' clinical decision-making skills. Students' reactions toward this strategy have been consistently positive. Similarly, faculty were satisfied with this method of assessment. Our experience has convinced us that computer simulation is an objective, efficacious, and pragmatic method for measuring students' clinical decision-making skills.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, Dalhouise University, Halifax, N.S., Canada.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wong
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wong
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Richard
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000592:standards*; D003198:Computer Simulation; D003657:Decision Making; D004521:Educational Measurement / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D013338:Students, Nursing