2011 Volume 34 Issue 4 Pages 4_33-4_44
This study clarified the evaluation viewpoints and attainment benchmarks of nursing teachers and nursing practitioners who simultaneously observed the skill of new graduate nurses in changing the nightclothes of patients with infusion lines. Nursing teachers focused on technical aspects, with the following three evaluation viewpoints: (1) whether the basic procedures, as taught in school, were performed; (2) whether the procedures were performed accurately in a polite manner; and (3) whether the procedures completed were done by oneself, that is, without help from anyone else. The completion of the nursing procedures by oneself was the attainment benchmarks. Meanwhile, based on nursing procedures at clinical sites, the nursing practitioners used the following as evaluation viewpoints: (1) whether the nurse talked positively to the patient and (2) whether the patient suffered any unnecessary pain or harm. As the attainment benchmark, they adopted one's success at being able to make the patient feel safe without suffering pain or burden in situations identical to clinical sites. However it was admitted that there was a tendency for the evaluations of the overall nursing skills to be determined by nurses' verbal communication and satisfactory completion without regarding each individual step of the procedures. Moreover, nursing teachers considered the nursing procedures used at clinical sites, which formed the criteria used by nursing practitioners, to be far removed from the basic procedures.
