Assessment of Breastfeeding clinical skills among nursing students usingobjective structured clinical examination (OSCE)

Abstract

 Evaluation is a systematic process to collect, analyze and interpret the data which is implemented in order to control progression of the programs accurately toward predetermined goals and to understand the cost-effectiveness or determination of value of
ongoing programs. Judgment of clinical skill is a vital component of nursing education and its appraisal methods persistently bother all nurse educators in nursing education. Appropriate judgment methods improve students’ performance whereas flawed methods can lead to incorrect decisions that adversely influence the performance of students. Many methods are currently in practice to check clinical competencies of students e.g. written examinations, viva voce, online evaluation, simulated tests, records of daily performance,
and objective structured clinical examination (OSCE).