Table 4.

Qualitative results from focus group interviews

Supporting views	Opposing views	Pre-implementation considerations
Improvement of new nurses’ clinical performance	Accreditation test for nursing education suffices	Efforts to ameliorate clinical training
New nurses’ increased adaptability to clinical situations	Increased burden on educators	Effective management plan necessary for exam applicants
Standardization of nursing practice training	Meaninglessness of performance exam	Standardization of performance exam’s assessment content
Quality improvement of nursing education: more balance		Development of questions that evaluate multiple abilities
Expansion of basic resources for educational institutions		Ensuring the credibility and validity of the evaluators (sufficient training of the evaluators)
Strengthened interconnections between educational institutions and practice institution