Abstract:
The purposes of this research were 1) to develop the quality of a clinical competency assessment model for nursing students based on Miller's Pyramid Framework using entrustable professional activities, 2) to study the effect of using clinical competency assessment model, and 3) to evaluate the effectiveness and quality of the clinical competency assessment model. The research informants developed a clinical competency assessment model consisted of 37 nursing experts. The participants for the trial of clinical competency assessment model were 2 nursing instructors, and 30 fourth-year nursing students. The research instruments were the Entrustable Professional Activity Assessment, Clinical Competency Component Assessment and Clinical Competency Assessment and the scoring rubrics. The results were summarized as follows: 1. The development of the clinical competency assessment model consisted of 1) 82 essential entrustable professional activities of nursing students, classified into 25 domains. The activities were divided into 5 levels of supervision from levels 1 to 5 consisting of 4, 25, 12, 20 and 21 activities, respectively, 2) Clinical competency assessment components consisting of 5 core nursing professional competencies with 22 indicators, and 3) The developed clinical competency assessment model and the scoring rubrics; nursing practice was the most important core competency component, followed by core competency in the ethics, code of conduct and law. The clinical competency assessment model consisted of three stages: preparatory, operational, and concluding. 2. The results of clinical competency assessment model using 2 entrusable professional activities including intravenous injection and suctioning showed that nursing students have achieved clinical competency and a level of supervision. The estimation of the generalizability coefficient of the clinical competency assessment with the Two-Facet Crossed Design (p x r x o) found that the higher number of raters and activities increased the generalizability coefficient for relative decision and absolute decision. The generalizability coefficients for absolute decision were acceptable (> .70) when having 2 raters and 4 entrustable professional activities. 3. The effectiveness of the clinical competency assessment model aspects of acceptability and educational impact, the overall mean was at a high level. Regarding the quality assessment based on the four quality standards: utility, feasibility, propriety, and accuracy, the overall mean was at the highest level.