title: Teaching students observational skills.
abstract: Students need to learn to observe specific details about patients and patients' environments in order to make accurate assessments and give quality nursing care. However, nursing faculty cannot expect students to be able to master observational skills without specific assistance in learning how to observe as well as what to observe.
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D004777:Environment; D006801:Humans; D009730:Nursing Assessment; D010465:Perception; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology; D013663:Teaching