Continual Evaluation In Nursing Leadership

Nursing leadership sets the bar for staff expectations and is an integral part of promoting safe, high quality patient care. Staff performance evaluations are one way for nursing leadership to monitor and provide feedback with the goal of increasing quality care. Having staff set some of their own performance goals keeps them focused and aimed toward quality improvement measures and in line with the organizations mission. With the goal of safe, high quality care nursing leadership gathers input from all team members. Gathering the team’s input promotes team unity and even though the leader makes the final decision, team members know they were part of the process and their input was heard.
Continual evaluation is necessary to improve patient