A progressive nurse practitioner student evaluation tool.

PURPOSE: To describe the process of designing a new progressive nurse practitioner student clinical evaluation tool based on competencies.

DATA SOURCES: Selected research articles and professional organization published guidelines.

CONCLUSIONS: Evaluation of nurse practitioner students' clinical performance is an important and often complex responsibility of faculty. The clinical evaluation tool should reflect the changing expectations associated with particular courses across the curriculum and be based on the competencies identified by the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties. Collaboration by faculty is the key to development of an accurate and useful clinical evaluation tool.

IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE: The progressive nurse practitioner clinical evaluation tool presented here is the result of integrating specific clinical course outcomes and competencies recognized by key nurse practitioner associations.