عنوان المقالة:وجهه نظر طلاب كلية التمريض جامعة سوهاج عن التقييم الالكينيكي موضوعي البناء كاداة تقييم المهارات العملية Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) as an Ass
Ghona Abd El-Nasser Ali, Abeer Yahya Mehdi and Heba Abdel-Kader Ali
الملخص الانجليزي
The aim of this study was to investigate the students perception of the OSCE as part of an
evaluation of clinical skills in Med-Surgical Nursing students. A self-administered
questionnaire was completed by1st year Med-Surgical Nursing students immediately after the
OSCE exam using Pierre et al., (2004) questionnaire, in addition to 7 questions about the
organization of OSCE evaluation. The results of this study indicate that OSCE has been fair
assessment tool (75.9%) and comprehensive (72.4%) and with clear instruction (50.0%),
minimized the chance of failing (68.9%), and highlighted areas of student's weakness
(46.6%). However, some students felt that OSCE was very stressful (24.1%), twenty nine
(50.0%) of student expressed concerns about inadequacy of time. As well, the OSCE
provided opportunities to learning, reflected those which were taught (36.2%), and (48.3%)
reported that the stations were organized and of logical sequence and appropriate. Thirty two
(55.2%) of the student felt that, the exam score provide true measure clinical skill, (56.9%)
believed that the score was standardized, and the personality and social relations did not affect
OSCE scores. Student feedback confirmed their acceptance of OSCE as an evaluation tool for
their clinical skills, so as to fairness and unbiased, cover a wide range of knowledge and
comprehensive, provide opportunities to leaning. Also the majority of examinees was
satisfied with organization and administration of the OSCE; as well prefer using the OSCE
exam more in the clinical exams than other assessment. Further studies are required involving
larger number of students and staff member to establish the effectiveness of OSCE within
nursing education programs, in addition use of Watched Structured Clinical Examination
(WSCE) to overcome the limited equipment and manpower