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Evaluate the behavior of your learners

Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, June 14, 2007

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How do you evaluate a learner's behavior? There are several options including direct observation, review of documentation, and assessing the appropriateness of patient-care interventions. Whichever method you choose, be sure that there is consistency throughout this level of evaluation. It involves assessing the actual use of new knowledge/skills during job performance. Using new knowledge/skills requires the support and encouragement of management and administration. Ask yourself, "Do employees, including managers and administrators, understand how new knowledge and skills affect the organization?" To make it easier for learners to attain new behaviors, answer the following questions before education is offered:

• How is job performance to be affected by the new knowledge/skills?
• Has the impact of education been clearly communicated to learners, managers, and administrators?
• Does the work environment facilitate the acquisition and use of new knowledge/skills by providing necessary equipment, staffing, etc.?

Editor's note: The above excerpt is from the online course "Nursing CE Series: Successful Strategies for Training Your Nursing Staff." For more information on this and other courses in our library, go to http://www.hcprofessor.com.

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