TY - BOOK AU - Wright,Donna TI - Competency assessment field guide: a real world guide for implementation and application SN - 9781886624917 AV - R729.5.H4 W75 2015eb U1 - 362.1068 23 PY - 2015///] CY - Minneapolis, MN PB - Creative Health Care Management KW - Health facilities KW - Administration KW - Case studies KW - Medical care KW - Quality control KW - Professional Competence KW - standards KW - Employee Performance Appraisal KW - methods KW - Health Facility Administration KW - Personnel Management KW - Quality Assurance, Health Care KW - Équipements sanitaires KW - Études de cas KW - Soins médicaux KW - Qualité KW - Contrôle KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE KW - Public Policy KW - Social Security KW - bisacsh KW - Social Services & Welfare KW - fast KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1489879 ER -