The clinical evaluation tool: a measure of the quality of clinical performance of baccalaureate nursing students.

ABSTRACT

This article describes an approach to the evaluation of students' clinical performance. Specifically, the paper describes (a) the history of the evaluation of clinical performance in nursing education; (b) the development of the Clinical Evaluation Tool (CET), an instrument designed to measure the clinical performance of nursing students across settings; and (c) the relationships between basic baccalaureate nursing students' scores on the CET and the following variables age, college credits earned prior to entry to the program, grade point average at entry, college aptitude, and moral reasoning.