Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Program (STP) on OSPE as a Method in Evaluation of Clinical Competency among Nursing Students

The assessment of students competency to practice is a worldwide matter of concern to all practice-based professions. Furthermore, OSPEs have been reported to be beneficial as they enhance skill acquisition through hands-on approach and affords students to practice in a safe controlled environment. Teaching sessions need to be organized to address skills that caused problems to the students during the OSPE.

An interventional study was carried on 60 nursing students from selected nursing colleges in Ludhiana, Punjab. Convenience sampling technique was used to select the colleges and disproportionate random sampling was used to collect sample. Data was collected with structured questionnaire to assess the knowledge on OSPE and checklist for the assessment of practices on OSPE among nursing students.

the study results revealed that 75% of students were in the age group of 24–26 years. Nearly all i.e. 98.3% were females. Majority i.e. 73.3% graduated through B. Sc. Nursing. The post-test mean knowledge score (12.52±1.662) and practices score (13.03±3.425) regarding OSPE, was significantly higher than pre-test mean knowledge score (9.12±2.278) and practices score (3.32±3.968) at p=0.001.

The post-test mean knowledge and practices score of nursing students regarding OSPE was significantly higher in comparison to pre-test mean knowledge and practices score. The structured teaching program was effective.