The Comparison of Stressors in the Assessment of Basic Clinical Skills with Traditional Method and OSCE in nursing Students

Evaluation of clinical competency of nursing students in the achieved skills and judgment in this case, is one of the important matters of clinical education. Using the right method of evaluation plays a considerable role in getting the appropriate result and making the right judgment. The purpose of the present study is comparing stressors in basic clinical skills Evaluation with traditional and OSCE methods in nursing students. This is A comparative description study. Sampling was done through census. 25 students of the second term nursing whose practical course of fundamental of Nursing and skills evaluation had been done by traditional method and they had passed last term, were assessed at the end of second term through OSCE test. After taking the OSCE, the students filled the researcher made questionnaire with the purpose of examining their opinions, about stressors in both methods. The comparison of the result of the survey shows that the rate of stress while doing the techniques, stress of time limitation, confusion during the test, complication of the test method and encouraging students to active participation in learning in OSCE method was meaningfully more than the traditional method and the traditional evaluation was not considered as an encouraging method for active learning and fair and accurate evaluation of clinical skills of students. OSCE is recommended as one of the most appropriate methods in evaluation students' clinical skills because of assessing students fairly and equally and encouraging them to active learning although there was stress before and at the moment of doing the techniques. Also the program of familiarizing students with this method of evaluation during the term and some corrections in its performance seem necessary. [Bagheri 1 M, Sadeghnezhd Forotgheh M, Shaghayee Fallah M. The Comparison of Stressors in the Assessment of Basic Clinical Skills with Traditional Method and OSCE in nursing Students. Life Sci J 2012;9(4):1748-1752] (ISSN:1097-8135). http://www.lifesciencesite.com. 266