Clinical education is the cornerstone of nursing programs, and effective clinical instructors are essential to developing confident, competent nurses. This Clinical Instructor Evaluation Form gives nursing students a structured way to provide meaningful feedback on their clinical instructors' teaching effectiveness, patient care supervision, and professional modeling.

Built with Paperform, this template is designed specifically for nursing education programs—whether you're a nursing school administrator, clinical coordinator, or faculty member looking to gather actionable insights from students completing their clinical rotations.

Why this form works for nursing education

Clinical instruction requires a unique blend of bedside teaching, safety supervision, and professional mentorship. This evaluation captures feedback across all critical dimensions: how well instructors demonstrate clinical skills, their approach to patient care supervision, their ability to foster clinical reasoning and critical thinking, and how effectively they model professional nursing behaviors.

The form uses a mix of rating scales and open-ended questions to collect both quantitative and qualitative feedback, giving you clear metrics for instructor performance while capturing the nuanced experiences that numbers alone can't tell. Conditional logic ensures students only see relevant follow-up questions, making the evaluation feel personalized and respectful of their time.

Perfect for multiple nursing education settings

This template works across various clinical education contexts—from hospital-based rotations and community health placements to specialty clinics and long-term care settings. Whether you're evaluating preceptors, clinical faculty, or adjunct instructors, the questions adapt to capture what matters most about hands-on nursing education.

Automate your evaluation workflow with Stepper

Once you've collected evaluation data, you can use Stepper to automate what happens next. Route evaluations that flag concerns to clinical coordinators for immediate follow-up, automatically compile semester-end instructor performance reports, or trigger thank-you messages to high-performing instructors. Keep your faculty development process moving without manual data entry.

Built for healthcare education standards

The form structure aligns with AACN and NLN competencies, focusing on the teaching behaviors that research shows make the biggest difference in nursing student outcomes. You maintain complete control over the questions and can easily customize the evaluation criteria to match your program's specific clinical education philosophy.

Paperform's SOC 2 Type II compliance and robust security features mean you can collect sensitive evaluation data with confidence, while the platform's intuitive design ensures students can complete evaluations quickly—even during busy clinical rotation periods.

Whether you run a BSN program, ADN program, or graduate nursing specialty, this Clinical Instructor Evaluation Form helps you gather the feedback you need to support both student success and instructor development.