Undergraduate students as standardized patients to assess advanced practice nursing student competencies.
Evaluating clinical skills of students in an online distance education program can be challenging because of the diverse location of students. The authors describe a unique and cost-efficient method of using standardized patients to evaluate these skills. The project involved undergraduate students representing standardized patients for graduate advanced practice nurse students.
Richardson
Luann
L
School of Nursing, Duquesne University, 600 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15282, USA. richardson@duq.edu
Resick
Lenore
L
Leonardo
Maureen
M
Pearsall
Catherine
C
D002983:Clinical Competence; D020375:Education, Distance; D004511:Education, Nursing, Graduate / Q000379:methods*; D004521:Educational Measurement; D006801:Humans; D017145:Models, Educational; D009720:Nurse Clinicians / Q000193:education*; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D016544:Patient Simulation; D015397:Program Evaluation; D013338:Students, Nursing