Effectiveness of Station-based Skill Training Model through Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE): Nursing Students’ Skills in Performing the Clinical Procedures

Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) is “a best way to deal with the appraisal of clinical ability in which the domain of competence are evaluated in a very much arranged structure with consideration being significant to objectivity”, or as an assessment of structured clinical skills. An OSCE requires every trainee to exhibit particular abilities and practices in a simulatory setting with institutionalized patients. It comprises short undertakings of tasks and each task is assessed by an analyst utilizing a foreordained scheme of plan. The OSCE has turned into an entrenched strategy for evaluation which is extensively utilized as a technique for appraisal in field of nursing educational program.

This study implemented to assess the procedural skills of nursing students using OSCE scales when station-based expertise preparing and to evaluate the effectiveness of station-based skill training model for teaching procedural skills among nursing students.

A pre-experimental one group pre and post test design was used with 30 randomly selected samples. The clinical skills of the students were observed before and after giving the station based skill training. The three selected skill stations were venipuncture, wound dressing and NG tube feeding.

The mean post test scores in all three skill procedures were significantly high indicating that the station based skill training model was effective.

The OSCE acts as a tool in assessing and evaluating the students skills in performing clinical procedures.