Nursing Skill Assessment in Nursing Laboratory based on the Concept of Assessment for Learning

Abstract

The bachelor degree in nursing education practicing oriented education which is
combined with both theoretical and experimental curriculum, which must be taught before
nursing students can proceed to practice in patient wards. Fundamental nursing subjects
usually arrange nursing skill evaluation in fundamental nursing laboratory to evaluate skill
such as insertion/removal of infection prevention tools, vital signs evaluation and record, NGtube
insertion, and intravenous infusion. Therefore, Royal Thai Navy College of Nursing aim
to apply assessment for learning, which is a part of practical assessment, to evaluate the
nursing skills in nursing laboratory, with 7 steps of development; 1) study learning objectives
in accordance with subjects’ learning outcome, 2) set development objectives for learning
evaluation by compiling previous problems, 3) improve experimental evaluation forms and
grading, 4) create nursing experimental situation that encourages rational thinking, 5) prepare
teachers’ readiness before nursing skill evaluation for learning purpose, 6) conduct evaluation
for learning, and 7) provide feedback for nursing skill evaluation development by using
evaluation for learning as a guideline. Overall, the application of evaluation for learning to
nursing skill evaluation in laboratory should encourage nursing students to learn from the
evaluation, which will be beneficial to nursing performance when dealing effectively with
various types of patients.