Clinical Skill Evaluation of Undergraduate Nursing Students Using Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE)

Background: Although Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCEs) become one type of clinical skill evaluation method conducted widely by health institutions (medical, nursing and pharmacy), the use of OSCE in Indonesia has not been applied thoroughly. Objective: To explore clinical evaluation result at the subject of emergency nursing among undergraduate nursing students using OSCEs. Method: This research method was a descriptive observational research with a cross-sectional approach. A total of 97 respondents were undergraduate nursing students who were in their third year and enrolled in Emergency Nursing Course. Group comparison was done using Independent Sample T-test (gender and OSCE's score). Result: There were no significance difference in the mean score both in cognitive and psychomotor aspects regarding genders' respondents. Furthermore, male students achieved higher score both in cognitive and psychomotor aspects than of female students. Conclusion: Nursing lecturer are expected to concern more on the student ability in critical thinking and in analyzing procedural skills' rational. Using OSCE would be benefit for the students to perform better in their cognitive and psychomotor areas.