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PURPOSE: To describe the process of designing a new progressive nurse practitioner student clinical evaluation tool based on competencies. DATA SOURCES: Selected research articles and professional organization published guidelines. CONCLUSIONS: Evaluation of nurse practitioner students' clinical performance is an important and often complex responsibility of faculty. The clinical evaluation tool should reflect the changing expectations associated with particular courses across the curriculum and be based on the competencies identified by the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties. Collaboration by faculty is the key to development of an accurate and useful clinical evaluation tool. IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE: The progressive nurse practitioner clinical evaluation tool presented here is the result of integrating specific clinical course outcomes and competencies recognized by key nurse practitioner associations.
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Clinical Competence/statistics & numerical data , Educational Status , Nurse Practitioners/statistics & numerical data , Clinical Competence/standards , Humans , Models, Educational , Nurse Practitioners/standards , United StatesABSTRACT
This study evaluated the accomplishment of the Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC) outcome "Health Seeking Behavior" in 5 nurse-managed clinics. Nurse practitioners and registered nurses rated patients on 11 indicators of health seeking behaviors, and recorded their level of knowledge of the patient. A total of 556 evaluations were collected. Health seeking behavior scores were lowest in a rural county school-based clinic and highest in a federally qualified health center. Ratings increased with nurses' knowledge of patients and for older patients.
