Nursing students and nurses can use STAR technique – also called STAR method – to help structure their thinking and focus their problem-solving. The STAR acronym stands for ‘situation, task, action, result’ and is useful not only in clinical practice and problem-solving, but when answering questions at job interview too. It can help you to articulate examples of how you have demonstrated certain values, for example, compassion in nursing. It can also help you break down issues you encounter in the clinical setting, to analyse how to approach them. STAR technique can also be applied by nursing students in conversations with clinical assessors.