Competencies for Staff Educators: Tools to Evaluate and Enhance Nursing Professional Development

With more than 70 evidence-based competencies included on the accompanying CD-ROM, staff educators will immediately incorporate cutting-edge concepts into practice. Competencies for Staff Educators gives you the opportunity to: write criterion-based job descriptions, provide orientation for new staff educators, create accurate performance reviews and assess proficiency, measure professional development and cultural competence, complete self-assessments and set performance goals, and much, much more! This is a valuable, must-have resource for nurse educators, nurse managers, chief nursing officers, and directors of nursing in any setting.

Staff educators have resources to measure competencies for their clinical skills, but there have never been measures to demonstrate they are competent in their educational role . . . until now. Competencies for Staff Educators: Tools to Evaluate and Enhance Nursing Professional Development is the first book to give staff educators an objective, validated tool to measure proficiency.

With more than 70 evidence-based competencies included on the accompanying CD-ROM, staff educators will immediately incorporate cutting-edge concepts into practice. Competencies for Staff Educators gives you the opportunity to: write criterion-based job descriptions, provide orientation for new staff educators, create accurate performance reviews and assess proficiency, measure professional development and cultural competence, complete self-assessments and set performance goals, and much, much more! This is a valuable, must-have resource for nurse educators, nurse managers, chief nursing officers, and directors of nursing in any setting.

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Reviewer:Mary Allen Carey, PhD(University of Oklahoma College of Nursing)
Description:This book provides tools to evaluate and enhance nursing professional development.
Purpose:The purpose is to give staff educators measurable tools to establish and demonstrate proficiency. According to the authors, this book adds to the body of evidence-based staff development literature and is appropriate for staff development or patient educators in any setting.
Audience:The book is written for any practitioner interested in nursing professional development.
Features:Three sections cover competency assessment and validation, applications of the competencies to practice, and future trends. Chapters provide an overview of the competency movement and then cover developing educator competencies, creating a framework for educator competencies, self-assessment, criterion-based position descriptions, performance appraisals and professional development plans, and professional portfolios.
Assessment:This is a good quality book. The figures and exhibits throughout enhance the presentation.

Barbara A. Brunt, MA, MN, RN, BC, is Director of Nursing Education and Staff Development for Summa Health System Hospitals in Akron, OH. Over the past 28 years, she has held a variety of staff development positions, including educator, coordinator, and director. Ms. Brunt has been active in numerous professional associations and has received awards for excellence in writing, nursing research, leadership, and staff development. She is a co-author of the Competency Management System: Toolkit for Validation and Assessment, published by HCPro. She is serving a term as President-Elect of the National Nursing Staff Development Organization (NNSDO) through July of 2007, when she will begin a two-year term as President of the organization.