Livsey Kae Rivers
About the Author Kae Rivers Livsey, PhD, RN, MPH, is an associate professor, Western Carolina University School of Nursing, Asheville, North Carolina. The author thanks the J Corbett Charitable Trust, Dr. Soo Kim Godwin, Debra Ezzell, Carol Highsmith, and Heidi Winslow for their support and contributions to this work. Contact Dr. Livesy at
Nurs Educ Perspect. 2016 Sep/Oct;37(5):283-284. doi: 10.1097/01.NEP.0000000000000041.
This article describes implementation of the Creighton Simulation Evaluation Instrument to evaluate student performance during a simulated home visit experience. A total of 48 groups of students participating in the simulation were evaluated by peer evaluators and faculty. Interrater reliability was found to be low to fair. Low agreement between raters may be a result of a number of factors, including enhanced faculty familiarity with the instrument and being able to identify evidence of critical thinking being displayed by the students engaged in the simulation.
