Anne Elizabeth Topping

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Ruth Pearce Head of education, School of Nursing, Allied Health Professionals and Midwifery, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, England Anne Topping Professor of nursing and head of school, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, England Carol Willis Head of pre-registration education, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, England Why you should read this article: • To learn about a project that explored healthcare students’ experiences...

To investigate how mentors form judgements and reach summative assessment decisions regarding student competence in practice. Competence assessment is a significant component of pre‐registration nursing programmes in the United Kingdom. Concerns exist that assessments are subjective, lack consistency and that mentors fail to judge student performance as unsatisfactory. This study involved a whole student cohort completing a UK undergraduate adult nursing programme (N = 41).