Assessment by a Council-approved assessor

Sometimes the Council requires an assessment to be completed by a Council-approved assessor. In these cases the Council needs to be assured that the person completing the assessment is educated in assessment of performance and skilled in analysis, interpretation and evaluation of the assessment process.

The skills and qualifications the Council requires in an assessor are that he or she must:

• be a registered nurse in good standing with the Council and have a current practising certificate
• have at least three years' post-registration clinical experience in the area in which the assessment is to take place

and have completed at least one of the following:

• an adult teaching certificate or diploma
• experience as a nurse lecturer in an approved undergraduate nursing programme
• evidence of undertaking a preceptor programme or clinical teaching programme which includes learning on assessment
• unit standards from the New Zealand Qualifications Authority workplace assessor training
• demonstrated equivalency of any of the above.

To become an approved assessor, the person will need to submit his/her curriculum vitae and evidence to the Council for approval before the assessment takes place.