the development of a clinical nurse instructor evaluation tool: the need to consult more widely

dear editor, shahsavari et al. have presented an excellent account of the development and psychometric testing of a clinical nurse instructor evaluation tool.[1] certainly, the evaluation tool has been put through a rigorous process that is made up of the steps typically necessary in the evaluation of tool development. however, a caveat may be that the tool might not have received input from all the relevant stakeholders. it surely did receive adequate feedback from the nursing students and nursing faculty members – nonetheless, there are other players in this domain that could have been involved. one such group is patients. we increasingly wish ...