Define Self-assessment. Provide synonyms.
- Process of looking at oneself in order to assess aspects that are important to one’s identity;
- Syn: Self Review or Self Evaluation
What is the purpose of Self-Assessment?
It is used as an evaluation of one’s own abilities and failings
Define Peer Assessment. Provide synonyms.
- Evaluation of work by one or more people of similar competence to the producers of the work (peers)
- Syn: Peer Review or Peer Evaluation
What are the purposes of Peer Assessment?
- Constitutes a form of self-regulation by qualified members of nursing
- Maintain standards of quality
- Improve performance
- Provide credibility
What is the purpose of Student/ Peer Assessment?
- Process modeled after scholarly peer reviews
- Students synthesize, organize & communicate knowledge as they develop professional skills
- Students exposed to the work of others
- Students explore new ways of thinking
- Students refine & reflect on their own understanding
Describe the Student/ Peer Assessment process.
- Students are asked to contribute, or submit, work & then evaluate the work of their peers
- Peer Assessment is often anonymous
- Peers Assessments can be facilitated through the use of rubrics
- Students should complete a Self Assessment prior to completing a Peer Assessment
How can students develop sound clinical judgment by using Self-Assessment?
- Use references
- Use Nursing Process
- Use resources (wisely)
- Identify sociocultural values
- Assess systematically
- Set priorities systematically
- Provide patient-centered care
- Practice effective & therapeutic communication techniques
- Refuse to act without knowledge or thought
- Know standards of care
- Know technology & equipment
List 6 barriers to Peer Assessment.
Whom do they occur between?
- Lack of Cooperation
- Lack of Collaboration
- Incompetence
- Differing value systems*
- Differing cultures*
- Differing education levels*
*Differences may be between peers and/or institutions
What is the science of nursing, and what do we call it in practice?
- Theory & research are the foundations of scientifically based nursing practice
- Called “Evidence-based practice (EBP)”
Which traditional nursing methods does EBP replace?
- Empirical knowledge/practice
- Trial & error
- Intuition
The development of what is a means of adapting a scientific framework to the management of patient care?
The Nursing Process
Define the Scientific Method. What is its purpose?
- Definition: the use of an orderly, systematic way of thinking about & solving problems
- Purpose: to discover & test facts & principles
Define EBP.
The systematic investigation of phenomena related to improving specific aspects of health care and/or nursing.
Which approach to the delivery of health care integrates the best evidence from (research) studies and patient care data with clinician expertise & patient preferences & values?
EBP
Describe Quantitative Research.
- experimental design
- Hypothesis/Null hypothesis
- Measureable variables
- Measureable outcomes
- Statistical analysis
Describe Qualitative Research.
- No variables being manipulated
- Qualities of the human experience are described & interpreted
- Utilizes narrative interviews; participant observation (field work)
Describe Mixed Methods Research.
Combination of quantitative & qualitative methodologies
What do all research methods require?
Sound reasoning
Explain Inductive Reasoning.
- Process begins with a particular experience
- Proceeds to generalizations
- Conclusions are “true” (in accordance with fact or reality)
Explain Deductive Reasoning.
- Process beings with a general experience
- Proceeds to specific cases
- Conclusions are valid (soundly founded)
Define and describe literature review.
- Investigation into published research
- Investigation may be formal or informal (scholarly or empirical)
- Peer Reviewed research is most robust
List some literature databases.
- Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied health Literature (CINAHL)
- PubMed
- PsycINFO
- Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (meta analysis, quantitative only)
