The clinical evaluation tool: a measure of the quality of clinical performance of baccalaureate nursing students.
This article describes an approach to the evaluation of students' clinical performance. Specifically, the paper describes: (a) the history of the evaluation of clinical performance in nursing education; (b) the development of the Clinical Evaluation Tool (CET), an instrument designed to measure the clinical performance of nursing students across settings; and (c) the relationships between basic baccalaureate nursing students' scores on the CET and the following variables: age, college credits earned prior to entry to the program, grade point average at entry, college aptitude, and moral reasoning.
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University of Minnesota School of Nursing, Minneapolis 55455.
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Duckett
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Ryden
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D000328:Adult; D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000592:standards*; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000592:standards*; D004521:Educational Measurement / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D016014:Linear Models; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013338:Students, Nursing; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires