A Student-Centered Approach: The Mobile Outreach Skills Clinic for Assessment

Abstract

In the last 3 years, the authors have developed and launched the Outreach Skills Clinic for Assessment (OSCA) at the University of Chester. OSCA has been established to help pre-registrant students overcome practice learning challenges, and particularly to ease the achievement of a range of more challenging proficiencies and skills within the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s (2018) Future Nurse: Standards of Proficiency for Registered Nurses. Using simulation as a learning and assessment strategy, OSCA offers learners an opportunity to experience and practice the realities of professional practice in a controlled and accessible environment.