The relationship between learning situations and the students’ learning outcomes

For a learning situation to contribute to the greatest possible amount of learning, the situation must be made the subject of reflection in relation to the student nurses’ learning outcomes for the clinical placement period. . Learning outcomes guide what the students are to learn, and they serve as criteria in the assessment of the students’ nursing skills. During the clinical placement period, students will achieve learning outcomes organised under different areas of nursing skills, which are specified in the assessment forms for mid-term and final assessment:

“Nursing skills are developed in specific learning situations where knowledge, practical and relational skills are integrated.”