A rating scale to evaluate research posters.

Many nursing conferences include research reports in the form of oral reports, symposia discussions, and poster presentations. To assist faculty, students, and clinicians in the systematic preparation and critique of poster presentations, the author discusses her 30-item research-poster appraisal tool (R-PAT). The tool assists nurses in preparing nursing research posters, guides nursing faculty in grading research posters that are a class assignment, and lets viewers systematically critique posters.