Assessment of outcomes: the design and use of real and simulation nursing performance examinations
Lenburg, C.B.; Mitchell, C.A.
Nursing and Health Care Official Publication of the National League for Nursing 12(2): 68-74
1991
ISSN/ISBN: 0276-5284 PMID: 1996172 Document Number: 381833
Lenburg and Mitchell tell us the time for student outcome assessment has arrived. They examine the philosophic assumptions underlying this system and share the experience gleaned by the New York Regents External Degree programs. Testing options ranging from observed care of real patients to patient simulations to interactive video exams are discussed.