Competency assessment field guide : a real world guide for implementation and application /
Wright, Donna,
Competency assessment field guide : a real world guide for implementation and application / Donna Wright. - 1 online resource (ix, 201 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references and index.
_GoBack; About the Author; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Overview of the Wright Competency Assessment Model; SECTION A; Answers to the Most Frequently Asked Questions about Competency Assessment; Regulations and Standards; Float Pool Competencies; Checklists vs. "Checklists"; Competent Person vs. Competent Action; Avoiding "Spray and Pray": Education is Not Always the Answer; What Every Educator and Professional Development Specialist Needs to Know; Validators; Competencies Can be Used as the Second Half of the Job Description. Performance Review and Competency Assessment: How Do they Fit Together?Standardization vs. Sameness; Automating Our Competency Process: Tracking, Documentation, and Communication; Competency and Engagement; SECTION B; Reflections from Organizations that have Used the Wright Competency Model; Stories from the Field; A Journey to Competency Brings a Culture Change; Waterbury Hospital; Waterbury, Connecticut; Competency as the Key to a Nursing Practice Model; Lawrence Memorial Hospital; Lawrence, Kansas; From Fragmentation to Consistency and Alignment; Buena Vista Regional Medical Center. Storm Lake, IowaMaximum Staff Involvement Creates its Own Momentum; Kettering Behavioral Medical Center; Kettering, Ohio; The Goal Was Saving Resources; the Outcome Was a Valuable Competency Process; UnityPoint Health Des Moines; Des Moines, Iowa; A Very Diverse System Plus Regulatory Requirements for Education Required a Streamlined System; Norton Healthcare; Louisville, Kentucky; From Education as the Solution to Every Performance Problem, to Demonstrating the Skills Needed to Do the Job; North Kansas City Hospital; North Kansas City, Missouri. Discovering the True Meaning of Competency Makes for Authentic, Rewarding AssessmentSt. Luke's Health System; Boise, Idaho; A Story of Cost Savings ... and Tenacity!; St. Luke's Children's Hospital; Boise, Idaho; A Paradigm Shift (and a Creative Automotive Theme) Brought Accountability and Engagement; Children's Mercy Hospital; Kansas City, Missouri; "We Now Talk in Competency Language"; Virginia Commonwealth University Health System; Richmond, Virginia; A Program that Truly Validates Competency also Enhances the Patient Experience, Patient Safety, and Nurse Satisfaction. Morton Plant Mease Health Care (part of BayCare Health System)Clearwater, Florida; Designing a Skills Fair that Actually Assesses Skills; Morton Plant Hospital; Clearwater, Florida; Decentralized, Time-Sensitive Competency Education; Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at Somerset; Somerville, New Jersey; Placing Accountability for Competency Verification with the Professional Nurse Elevates Practice throughout the Organization; Avera McKennan Hospital & University Health Center; Sioux Falls, South Dakota; A Change in Competency Assessment Improves Staff Unity.
The Competency Assessment Field Guide is a great resource for any organization in any phase of its journey to improve its competency assessment process. This book contains answers to some of the most frequently asked questions around competency assessment in health care. It also has implementation stories from 22 different organizations, as well as the overall best implementation tips for bringing to life the Donna Wright Competency Assessment Model in your organization.
9781886624917 (electronic bk.) 1886624917 (electronic bk.)
Health facilities--Administration--Case studies.
Medical care--Quality control.
Professional Competence--standards
Employee Performance Appraisal--methods
Health Facility Administration--methods
Personnel Management--methods
Quality Assurance, Health Care
Équipements sanitaires--Administration--Études de cas.
Soins médicaux--Qualité--Contrôle.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Public Policy--Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Public Policy--Social Services & Welfare.
Health facilities--Administration.
Electronic books.
Case studies.
R729.5.H4 / W75 2015eb
362.1068
2016 F-126 W 21
Competency assessment field guide : a real world guide for implementation and application / Donna Wright. - 1 online resource (ix, 201 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references and index.
_GoBack; About the Author; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Overview of the Wright Competency Assessment Model; SECTION A; Answers to the Most Frequently Asked Questions about Competency Assessment; Regulations and Standards; Float Pool Competencies; Checklists vs. "Checklists"; Competent Person vs. Competent Action; Avoiding "Spray and Pray": Education is Not Always the Answer; What Every Educator and Professional Development Specialist Needs to Know; Validators; Competencies Can be Used as the Second Half of the Job Description. Performance Review and Competency Assessment: How Do they Fit Together?Standardization vs. Sameness; Automating Our Competency Process: Tracking, Documentation, and Communication; Competency and Engagement; SECTION B; Reflections from Organizations that have Used the Wright Competency Model; Stories from the Field; A Journey to Competency Brings a Culture Change; Waterbury Hospital; Waterbury, Connecticut; Competency as the Key to a Nursing Practice Model; Lawrence Memorial Hospital; Lawrence, Kansas; From Fragmentation to Consistency and Alignment; Buena Vista Regional Medical Center. Storm Lake, IowaMaximum Staff Involvement Creates its Own Momentum; Kettering Behavioral Medical Center; Kettering, Ohio; The Goal Was Saving Resources; the Outcome Was a Valuable Competency Process; UnityPoint Health Des Moines; Des Moines, Iowa; A Very Diverse System Plus Regulatory Requirements for Education Required a Streamlined System; Norton Healthcare; Louisville, Kentucky; From Education as the Solution to Every Performance Problem, to Demonstrating the Skills Needed to Do the Job; North Kansas City Hospital; North Kansas City, Missouri. Discovering the True Meaning of Competency Makes for Authentic, Rewarding AssessmentSt. Luke's Health System; Boise, Idaho; A Story of Cost Savings ... and Tenacity!; St. Luke's Children's Hospital; Boise, Idaho; A Paradigm Shift (and a Creative Automotive Theme) Brought Accountability and Engagement; Children's Mercy Hospital; Kansas City, Missouri; "We Now Talk in Competency Language"; Virginia Commonwealth University Health System; Richmond, Virginia; A Program that Truly Validates Competency also Enhances the Patient Experience, Patient Safety, and Nurse Satisfaction. Morton Plant Mease Health Care (part of BayCare Health System)Clearwater, Florida; Designing a Skills Fair that Actually Assesses Skills; Morton Plant Hospital; Clearwater, Florida; Decentralized, Time-Sensitive Competency Education; Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at Somerset; Somerville, New Jersey; Placing Accountability for Competency Verification with the Professional Nurse Elevates Practice throughout the Organization; Avera McKennan Hospital & University Health Center; Sioux Falls, South Dakota; A Change in Competency Assessment Improves Staff Unity.
The Competency Assessment Field Guide is a great resource for any organization in any phase of its journey to improve its competency assessment process. This book contains answers to some of the most frequently asked questions around competency assessment in health care. It also has implementation stories from 22 different organizations, as well as the overall best implementation tips for bringing to life the Donna Wright Competency Assessment Model in your organization.
9781886624917 (electronic bk.) 1886624917 (electronic bk.)
Health facilities--Administration--Case studies.
Medical care--Quality control.
Professional Competence--standards
Employee Performance Appraisal--methods
Health Facility Administration--methods
Personnel Management--methods
Quality Assurance, Health Care
Équipements sanitaires--Administration--Études de cas.
Soins médicaux--Qualité--Contrôle.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Public Policy--Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Public Policy--Social Services & Welfare.
Health facilities--Administration.
Electronic books.
Case studies.
R729.5.H4 / W75 2015eb
362.1068
2016 F-126 W 21