Education Assessment Strategies
Assessment Strategies
Introduction
There are a number of approaches that can be designed in order to measure the effectiveness of nurses in hospitals and the nursing colleges. Of the great importance is to understand that nursing is a very critical profession to human life. In this regard, there should be no room for guesswork or mistakes when carrying out this noble activity. In order to avoid the mistakes and to produce perfect outcome, there should be developed satisfying assessment strategies that would guarantee the effectiveness of the nurses both at their training and places of work. The developed assessment strategies should also conform to the personal digital assistants (PDAs) technology which helps in ensuring the nurses’ effectiveness. It should be noted that assessment comes in two categories.
Assessment strategies Unlike most of the professions, nursing should be more practical than theoretical (Schiemer, 2000). In this case, the assessment is better done in a clinical setting whereby the students are put in a health care facility so as to review their performances in the field of nursing. This is to say that the first assessment strategy is to keep the students in the field where there will be a direct assessment. This strategy will give them experience that they will apply in their future nursing practices. This strategy is also applicable to the nurses who are already in practice, and it helps in the employee education. The nursing students are monitored by either their instructors or qualified colleagues who assist them whenever the need arises. However, qualified nurses receive a minimal monitoring because their experience and qualifications leaves little doubt in the minds of their seniors. Nevertheless, mistakes can happen, and this is the reason why these nurses should be equipped with the knowledge of using PDA technology. This will support them in focusing less time in tracking down of information and more time in the care of
Introduction
There are a number of approaches that can be designed in order to measure the effectiveness of nurses in hospitals and the nursing colleges. Of the great importance is to understand that nursing is a very critical profession to human life. In this regard, there should be no room for guesswork or mistakes when carrying out this noble activity. In order to avoid the mistakes and to produce perfect outcome, there should be developed satisfying assessment strategies that would guarantee the effectiveness of the nurses both at their training and places of work. The developed assessment strategies should also conform to the personal digital assistants (PDAs) technology which helps in ensuring the nurses’ effectiveness. It should be noted that assessment comes in two categories.
Assessment strategies Unlike most of the professions, nursing should be more practical than theoretical (Schiemer, 2000). In this case, the assessment is better done in a clinical setting whereby the students are put in a health care facility so as to review their performances in the field of nursing. This is to say that the first assessment strategy is to keep the students in the field where there will be a direct assessment. This strategy will give them experience that they will apply in their future nursing practices. This strategy is also applicable to the nurses who are already in practice, and it helps in the employee education. The nursing students are monitored by either their instructors or qualified colleagues who assist them whenever the need arises. However, qualified nurses receive a minimal monitoring because their experience and qualifications leaves little doubt in the minds of their seniors. Nevertheless, mistakes can happen, and this is the reason why these nurses should be equipped with the knowledge of using PDA technology. This will support them in focusing less time in tracking down of information and more time in the care of
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