CLINICAL PERFORMANCE EVALUATION TOOL

NUR 419 Nursing Leadership

STUDENT’S NAME ___________________________________________

COURSE _____________________________ SEMESTER _______________________

This clinical evaluation tool consists of eight essential competencies with specific performance criteria. The eight competencies were drawn from the BSN program outcomes at St. Thomas University, The Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice (AACN, 2008), and Quality and Safety Education in Nursing (Cronenwett et al., 2007). The performance criteria for each competency include cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains of learning and provide a complete evaluation of an individual student’s clinical performance. The use of this clinical evaluation tool makes it possible to see the student’s development over time as he or she progresses through the specific course, as well as through the nursing curriculum. It also provides standard measures for student, course, and program evaluation.

All students are evaluated on their clinical performances during each nursing clinical course by faculty. Students are required to adhere to Professional Behaviors throughout the nursing program by respecting the rights of others. Failure to meet expected behaviors may result in a failing clinical grade or in appropriate cases, dismissal from the nursing program. Faculty will provide written documentation to the student during the week any unsatisfactory behavior occurs, with suggestions for improvement. The student may respond in writing within 48 hours to the faculty members’ findings and/or submit written documentation relevant to the behavior. Students must be satisfactory in all objectives by the end of the semester in order to pass this course.

SATISFACTORY

A student who earns a grade of satisfactory:

1. Safely executes effective, ethical psychomotor skills or identifies errors in technique.
2. Applies theoretical knowledge with assistance.
3. Begins to gather data for use in the nursing process.
4. Begins to use therapeutic communication techniques when interacting with others.
5. Begins to apply critical thinking when developing a nursing care plan.
6. Validates unclear areas with instructor.
7. Meets all objectives in core components.

NEEDS IMPROVEMENT (NI)

A student who earns a grade of needs improvement:

1. Demonstrates inconsistent performance of the clinical objective.
2. is often below the expected level of achievement, and
3. the student often requires more than the expected amount of guidance by the clinical faculty or staff nurse.

UNSATISFACTORY

A student who earns a grade of unsatisfactory:

1. Fails to transfer knowledge from pre-requisite courses.
2. Shows negligence in patient care that causes actual or potential harm.
3. Violates policies of affiliating agency and/or college.
4. Unsafely executes psychomotor skills taught in semester 1.
5. Fails to act on constructive feedback.
6. Fails to meet course objectives due to recurring absenteeism or tardiness in the clinical setting.
7. Fails to meet all objectives in core components.

Clinical Learning Contract:

Clinical faculty will provide the student with ongoing feedback regarding performance on clinical objectives. If the student is not meeting the clinical objectives or has “Needs Improvement” or “Unsatisfactory” ratings on any objective, a Learning Contract will be issued to the student. The contract will describe specific behaviors that must be demonstrated by the student and will provide a time-frame for completion of the contract to assist the student to meet the clinical objectives. If the criteria for the Learning Contract are not met, an unsatisfactory grade will be earned and the student will fail the course.

S = Satisfactory N/I = Need Improvement U= Unsatisfactory

FINAL COURSE GRADE: (Based on grading criteria). The comment sections allow both ongoing and summary discussion about the strengths and limitations of the student’s clinical performance. Please date and sign all comments. Use the back of the page as needed. This section should have summary comments from parties the end of the semester.

FINAL EVALUATION FINDINGS

Dates of Absences __________________ Tardiness_______________

Instructor/PreceptorComments_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Final Grade: S___________ U___________________

Instructor/Preceptor Signature__________________________ Date: ___/___/______

Student Comments_____________________________________________________________

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Student Signature ________________________ Date: ___/___/___________

References

References Used for Tool Development:

American Association of Colleges of Nursing. (2008). The essentials of baccalaureate education

for professional nursing practice. Washington, DC: Author.

Cronenwett, L., Sherwood, G., Barnsteiner J., Disch, J., Johnson, J., Mitchell, P., Sullivan, D. &

Warren, J. (2007). Quality and safety education for nurses. Nursing Outlook, 55,122-131.