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Mitsuki, S., Mouri, T., Sasagawa, H. and Takishita, Y. (2011) The Effectiveness and Areas of Program, Which Is Part of the Fundamental Nursing Education to Improve Clinical Nursing Competence. Journal of Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, 120, 769-780. (In Japanese with English Summary)

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• TITLE: The Relationship between Assessment Skills and Nursing Knowledge

  AUTHORS: Keiko Aizu, Kasumi Mikami, Ryoko Tsuchiya, Mayumi Shimizu, Nanae Kojima, Naoki Oka, Yoshiko Nishizawa

  KEYWORDS: Structural Knowledge, Assessment, Clinical Practice, Cognitive Psychology

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Nursing, Vol.5 No.12, December 21, 2015

  ABSTRACT: This research aimed to clarify the relationship between nursing students’ levels of structural knowledge and assessment skills. Participants were 17 third-year university students majoring in nursing who participated individually in the experiments. The experiments included a nursing-scene task, free-recall task, and sorting task. Experiments were conducted before and after their clinical practice. Each student’s level of structural knowledge was calculated from the free-recall and sorting task responses, and each student’s assessment skill was calculated from the nursing-scene task responses. Levels of structural knowledge were significantly higher in post-examination compared with pre-examination (p p n = 5) had significantly higher scores for their conclusions and reasons than the low-structured group (n = 5) (p p