Design of standardized cases and its application in evaluation of the ability of assessment / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To design standardized cases to evaluate the ability of the assessment among nursing students.Methods A set of standardized cases were designed based on an international standardized nursing language as well as a textbook of health assessment and reference.After validity of the set of standardized cases had been tested by the focus group and expert evaluation,the cases were applied to test the ability of the assessment among a total of 57 nursing students.Data were analyzed statistically.Results The average score of evaluation ability of nursing students was 42.5 (15～57).Nursing students got the highest score in psychosocial dimension,accounting for 50.7％ (13.93/27.5).Among five cases,the most difficult case was case 4,the degree of difficulty was 0.36.Conclusions This set of standardized cases can be used to assess the assessment ability among nursing students,and also can be used to evaluate the effects of training.