title: Using Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) in undergraduate psychiatric nursing education: is it reliable and valid?
abstract: While there is widespread use of OSCE in general nursing specialties, psychiatric nursing has been slow to adopt this evaluation method and it has only recently been introduced to psychiatric nursing education.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  The main aim of the present study is to test the first application, validity and reliability of the OSCE in undergraduate psychiatric nursing education.
  
  
  METHODS
  OSCE was developed to assess undergraduate psychiatric nursing students' clinical skills. The students' evaluation of the OSCE process was obtained after the completion of each OSCE circuit.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The psychiatric nursing OSCE proved to be a reliable and valid method in assessing psychiatric nursing clinical competencies. In general, the students perceived OSCE as a positive experience and stressful on the other hand.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  OSCE is a reliable and valid method of assessing the students' psychiatric nursing competency skills. It has been shown to have many advantages over traditional methods of assessment and has the ability to objectively assess psychiatric nursing skills.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Nursing, Mansoura University, Gomhuria St, Mansoura, Egypt. abeer_ai_selim_again@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Abeer A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Selim
authors.forename: Fatma H
authors.initials: FH
authors.lastname: Ramadan
authors.forename: Mervat M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: El-Gueneidy
authors.forename: Maha M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Gaafer
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate; D004521:Educational Measurement / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000193:education*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results