Australia’s Assessment System

All Australian nurses are assessed based on the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Council (ANMC) National Competency Standards. http://www.anmc.org.au/docs/Competency_standards_RN.pdf
Competence is defined by the Australian Nursing Council (ANC) as:

“The combination of skills, knowledge, attitudes, values, and abilities that underpin effective performance in a professional/occupational area”.

State Nursing Boards have approved courses which assess the competency of nurses to practice.
These courses are sometimes referred to as “Pre-registration programmes” or “Bridging Courses”

Theoretical content is usually limited to 10-20% of the hours.
Clinical assessments are conducted in Australian hospitals with actual patients.

Assessment is evidence based
Key elements in the assessment model include:
- Self-assessment by the nurse candidate
- Observation by the assessor of the nurse candidate.
- Interviews by the assessor with the others: peers, persons receiving nursing care, supervisors.
- Analysis by the assessor of all relevant documentation: care plans, patient charts and notes
Sources of evidence may include:
- Observation of performance
- Audit of documents such as care plans and clinical records
- Interviewing of the nurse candidate to reveal intentions and attitudes
- Interviewing colleagues and persons receiving nursing care.
- Testing (for example drug calculations, written assignments, multi choice questions)
- Examining records of previous achievements.

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