Respond substantively to your peers by commenting on the strategies they suggested to improve the performance evaluation process. Add your insight to the discussion.
As a nursing professional, we will have the opportunity to participate in performance evaluations. The purpose of performance evaluation is to stimulate motivation in performing the position’s responsibilities while highlighting successes and creating a path towards new initiatives and goals for the next evaluation period. In all we do sometimes we need to improve the process of how we do things. Two strategies for improving the process of evaluation include providing feedback throughout the year and performing the evaluation face to face (Peek, 2020).
In order to provide feedback throughout the year, the person conducting the evaluation needs to use the job description to highlight achievements that were met. This allows the evaluation to be focused which helps to prevent drifting to other topics that may not be relevant or pertinent to the performance assessment. Evaluations that follow a plan decreases the subjectivity that can affect an employee’s motivation and performance (Frederickson et al., 2017). Receiving feedback throughout the year is a technique that I am familiar with. Working in the emergency room requires constant training and evaluations to make sure that we are performing task per the organization policy. If for any reason the patient does not survive an emergent situation, based on the task performed and the documentation that was done will either confirm that I did what a prudent nurse would have done in the situation or if further education would be necessary.
Face to face evaluation is helpful in the healthcare industry because it is individualized which aids in fulfilling the full goal of a performance review. With a face-to-face evaluation, it outlines any shortcomings or mistakes, discusses resolutions to those problems while pushing employees to comment on the issues raised. (Peek, 2020). The only downside to performing a face-to-face evaluation is that ample time to present and process, listen and respond is needed (Peek, 2020). For myself, face to face evaluations serves as learning platform which will allow me to be the best nurse possible.
In closing, performance evaluations stimulate motivation in performing the position’s responsibilities while highlighting successes and creating a path towards new initiatives and goals for the next evaluation period.
