Competency assessment methods – Tool and processes: A survey of nurse preceptors in Ireland

Summative assessment of clinical practice of student nurses: A review of the literature

“…Mentors have noted that terminology on evaluation forms is sometimes so difficult to grasp, that the mentors did not understand what they mean (Brown, 2000;Butler et al, 2011;McCarthy and Murphy, 2008); carefully designed evaluation forms would make the assessment more objective and clear (Calman et al, 2002).…”

Learning in the traditional-faculty supervised teaching Model: PART 1-The nursing students’ perspective

“…[70][71][72] Third, those CIs with different backgrounds, such as from clinical practice settings or from university are likely to interpret clinical evaluation tools differently. [73] Findings of this study further revealed that students were concerned about clinical evaluation tool being used. Billings and Hallstead [74] asserted that "fair and reasonable evaluation of students in clinical settings requires use of appropriate evaluation tools that are ideally efficient for faculty to use."…”

Crowd Sourced Assessment of Technical Skills (CSATS): A Scalable Assessment Tool for the Nursing Workforce

“…That training period involved paying 1,400 nurses for their time and paying experts and evaluators to lead the training, all while mandating all nurses spend time in an education session rather than at the bedside. In addition to the costs and time, successful competency assessment in and of itself is challenging due to biased evaluators, inconsistent assessment tools, and no objective way to guarantee that those individuals who need more help receive it [3,4,6]. Some innovations have attempted to address the challenges of competency assessment, such as using video-based self-assessments to give participants and their evaluators accurate views of their performance [6].…”

“…Currently, due to the variability between instructors, nurses, new technical skills, and hospital protocols, there is no "gold standard" for assessing nursing technical skills to ensure competency [3]. It isn't feasible to have 1,400 nurses blindly evaluated by a handful of faculty not only because it would be extremely time consuming for the faculty, but also because it would leave room for subjectivity and unreliable evaluations.…”

“…In addition to the current nursing shortage and need for new hires, the sheer amount of technical skills in the field of clinical nursing demands efficient formal orientation trainings [1]. Providing accurate, efficient, and affordable competency assessment for healthcare providers is essential for continual quality improvement [1][2][3]. Medical professionals perform tasks every day that carry risk of infection, technical error such as misusing a device, and decreased patient satisfaction due to inefficiency or perceived lack of confidence, all of which can negatively impact patient outcome [4].…”