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M Hardcastle

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PubMed2000

Real time training for mental health staff working in an in-patient setting.

Concerns around acute in-patient mental health care including staff training are becoming increasingly prominent (Sainsbury, 1998; Sainsbury 1997). A training solution is proposed in this paper, which aims to deliver content derived from evidence based practice actually within the practitioner's own clinical workplace during their working hours. The benefits of this approach are discussed together with examples of content and methods for evaluating learning outcomes.

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PubMed1999

Assessment of mental health nursing competence using level III academic marking criteria: the Eastbourne assessment of practice scale.

The assessment of clinical competence in nursing represents a challenge to the profession. There is a need for assessment of practice skills through evaluative observation of performance but unfortunately such methods are not regularly used as a basis for assessment within most academic nursing institutions. Instead there is still a reliance upon more traditional types of academic assessment usually done through a written medium. Such methods whilst academically rigorous do not easily assess actual real life competence. This paper will describe how this tension was addressed through the development of a tool that combines observation of real life practice and viva style questioning with an assessment marking grid whose descriptors represent level III practice. Its inter rater reliability (rs = 0.88, P < 0.01) was established by 14 clinical nurse specialists in cognitive behaviour therapy who assessed a single video taped recording of a post-registration students performance whilst undergoing training in cognitive behaviour therapy.

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