Applicable Performance Criteria to Evaluate Clinical Nurses

The assessment of nurse performance plays an important role in guaranteeing high quality clinic care to achieve desired patient outcomes. Although many performance criteria have been suggested in the evaluation literature, none is universally accepted for nurse evaluation. The purpose of this study is to select and weight the applicable performance criteria to assess the clinical nurses in a hospital. Some performance criteria were generated from previously cited literature. Twenty-seven task performance and eleven contextual criteria were identified in eight categories. A questionnaire containing 38 criteria was designed to determine the weight of each criterion for nurse evaluation. It was distributed to all the clinical charge nurses in a hospital and they were asked to assign an appropriate weight to each criterion. The findings indicate that the most convenient categories are “Clinical skill”, “Professional skill” and “Contextual performance”.

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Nurse, Performance Criterion, Competency, Performance Evaluation, Contextual Performance

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