Nurse Education Today
Volume 29, Issue 1 , Pages 73-82 , January 2009

The use of scoring rubrics to determine clinical performance in the operating suite

  • Patricia Nicholson

      Affiliations

    • School of Nursing, Level 5 234 Queensberry Street, Carlton, 3010 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +61 3 8344 9415; fax: +61 3 9347 4172.
    • ,
  • Shelley Gillis

      Affiliations

    • Assessment Research Centre, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
    • ,
  • A.M. Trisha Dunning

      Affiliations

    • Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes, St. Vincent’s Health, 41 Victoria Parade, Fitzroy, Victoria 3065, Australia

,Accepted 24 June 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2008.06.011

Nurse Education Today
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