Evaluating students' esthetic knowing.

Abstract

Few references in education are made to evaluating students' performance in the art of nursing (esthetic knowing). To address this rarity, a client-based clinical evaluation modality was developed using clients as the "critics" of students' esthetic knowing. The findings suggest that having clients evaluate students' esthetic knowing is an appropriate evaluation modality and is especially important as empirically based cirricula shift to include esthetics as a central element.