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How to Succeed in Nursing Assessments
First edition
- Cariona Flaherty - Middlesex University, UK
November 2025 | 168 pages | Learning Matters
Throughout your nursing degree you will need to undertake a broad range of assessments, each requiring a different skill set in order to pass. Taking an assessment literacy approach that explains the purpose and process behind each assessment, this book offers practical tips and guidance to help you feel confident, demonstrate learning and application to practice and to achieve success.
Key features:
• Advice for a wide variety of assessments you’ll encounter during your training – from essays and oral presentations to quality improvement projects and OSCEs.
• Case studies and activities take you through each aspect of the assessment from start to finish and allow you to practice as you learn.
• Practical tips and guidance for success, including how to overcome exam anxiety and how to utilise and make the most of simulation.
Key features:
• Advice for a wide variety of assessments you’ll encounter during your training – from essays and oral presentations to quality improvement projects and OSCEs.
• Case studies and activities take you through each aspect of the assessment from start to finish and allow you to practice as you learn.
• Practical tips and guidance for success, including how to overcome exam anxiety and how to utilise and make the most of simulation.
Chapter 1: Assessment Literacy and Authentic Assessment in Nursing
Chapter 2: Written Assessments
Chapter 3: Narrated Presentation
Chapter 4: Oral Presentation
Chapter 5: Quality Improvement Project (QI)
Chapter 6: Dissertation (Literature Review / Research Proposal)
Chapter 7: Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE)
Chapter 8: Simulation / Virtual Reality
Chapter 9: Written Exam and Drug Calculation Exam