Clinical Evaluation: Verifying Competency (or How Do You Know They Know?)

Webinar Overview

Systematic and precise evaluation of student clinical performance is an essential aspect of teaching – especially since students’ clinical proficiency implies competency for practice. How can faculty make clinical evaluation more accurate and effective? Join a nationally known expert to explore what we know about clinical evaluation and how we can best use that information to ensure competency of graduates.

Webinar Speaker

Marilyn H. Oermann, PhD, RN, ANEF, FAAN
Director of Evaluation and Educational Research
School of Nursing
Duke University

Marilyn Oermann is Professor and the Director of Evaluation and Educational Research at Duke University School of Nursing. She is the author/co-author of 15 books, more than 130 articles in peer reviewed journals, and many other types of publications. Dr. Oermann’s current books are Evaluation and Testing in Nursing Education; Teaching in Nursing and Role of the Educator: The Complete Guide to Best Practice in Teaching, Evaluation, and Curriculum Development; Writing for Publication in Nursing; and Clinical Teaching Strategies in Nursing. She is the editor of the Journal of Nursing Care Quality and Nurse Author & Editor, and is past editor of the Annual Review of Nursing Education; she edited 6 volumes of that series. Dr. Oermann has written extensively on teaching and evaluation in nursing, and she lectures widely on nursing education topics. She is a member of the American Academy of Nursing and National League for Nursing (NLN) Academy of Nursing Education. She received the NLN Award for Excellence in Nursing Education Research and the Sigma Theta Tau International Elizabeth Russell Belford Award for Excellence in Education.