• Malliga.M
• Dr.S.Ani Grace Kalaimathi
• Dr.Fabiola M Dhanraj
• Dr.Anitha Babu

ABSTRACT: An experimental study conducted to identify the effectiveness of Objective Structured Clinical Examination on selected clinical components in child health nursing. The population for the present study comprised of B.sc (N) and DGNM students from various nursing colleges in puducherry. IV year B.SC (N), I year P.B.B.sc (N) and III year DGNM students who were fulfilling the inclusion criteria were selected with Stratified random sampling technique. Sample size was 392. In that total samples,196 samples were selected for experimental group and 196 samples for were selected for the control group. Ethical clearance obtained from institutional ethical committee and written consent obtained from the samplies. Demographic details of Age, Gender, Religion, Year of study, Course of study, Study Institution, Exposure to information about OSCE and Source of information were collected. The Pretest did using the checklist for 10 procedures using OSCE method. OSCE Procedure checklist was explained to the experimental group students. The post test done after a week among both the groups proved that OSCE is an effective method which can be considered as a method of examination suitable to assess the skill performance of nursing students.

Keywords: OSCE, Child Health Nursing, Procedure checklist

"EFFECTIVENESS OF OBJECTIVE STRUCTURED CLINICAL EXAMINATION AS A METHOD OF ASSESSMENT UPON SELECTED CLINICAL COMPONENTS IN CHILD HEALTH NURSING IN SELECTED NURSING COLLEGES, PONDICHERRY", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no.490-495, April-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904C80.pdf

"EFFECTIVENESS OF OBJECTIVE STRUCTURED CLINICAL EXAMINATION AS A METHOD OF ASSESSMENT UPON SELECTED CLINICAL COMPONENTS IN CHILD HEALTH NURSING IN SELECTED NURSING COLLEGES, PONDICHERRY", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no. pp490-495, April-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904C80.pdf