How can you validate competencies? Observe.
Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, July 19, 2007
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Observations of daily work can be a means of validating competency. Specific interactions or skills can be directly observed as someone performs his or her work, and patient outcomes and documentation can be observed. This provides an opportunity for multiple observations and addresses one of the problems with checklists, which usually gather data from only one observation of a task.
When staff members know they are being observed, they have a tendency to go through all the steps correctly when they might not normally do so. These observations can include:
- Patient rounds
- Medical-record reviews
Editor's note: The above excerpt is from the online course "Nursing CE Series: Assessing Competencies." For more information on this and other courses in our library, go to http://www.hcprofessor.com.
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