Evidence-Based Competency Management for the Medical-Surgical Unit [With CDROM]

From The Critics

Reviewer: Josie Martin Bowman, RN, MSN, DSN(East Carolina University )
Description: This book is designed to assist with validation and assessment of skills of nurses in clinical settings and includes forms that can be used and modified along with material on an accompanying CD.
Purpose: It is intended "specifically for assessing, validating and documenting the skills" of medical-surgical nurses. Skill documentation is important and necessary for state boards of nursing and accreditation bodies.
Audience: Nurses in clinical settings who are responsible for validation and monitoring of skills are the primary audience. The authors are all nurses who have experience in developing continuing education material.
Features: The book begins with a discussion of why competency validation is required, what competency validation is, how it is used in job evaluation, and how to do competency evaluation. The skills sheets for documentation cover simple and more complex skills. The majority of the book is presented in a skills checklist format, and each one is referenced.
Assessment: The first part of the book addresses essential information related to competency. The checklist could be eliminated and that information obtained from other references. The second edition has references listed for all the competencies, something that was not done in the first edition. All information has been updated, and some skills have been deleted and new ones added.

From The Critics

Reviewer: Josie Martin Bowman, RN, MSN, DSN(East Carolina University )
Description: This book is designed to assist with validation and assessment of skills of nurses in clinical settings and includes forms that can be used and modified along with material on an accompanying CD.
Purpose: It is intended "specifically for assessing, validating and documenting the skills" of medical-surgical nurses. Skill documentation is important and necessary for state boards of nursing and accreditation bodies.
Audience: Nurses in clinical settings who are responsible for validation and monitoring of skills are the primary audience. The authors are all nurses who have experience in developing continuing education material.
Features: The book begins with a discussion of why competency validation is required, what competency validation is, how it is used in job evaluation, and how to do competency evaluation. The skills sheets for documentation cover simple and more complex skills. The majority of the book is presented in a skills checklist format, and each one is referenced.
Assessment: The first part of the book addresses essential information related to competency. The checklist could be eliminated and that information obtained from other references. The second edition has references listed for all the competencies, something that was not done in the first edition. All information has been updated, and some skills have been deleted and new ones added.

From The Critics

Reviewer:Josie M. Bowman, DSN, RN(East Carolina University )
Description:This book is designed to assist with validation and assessment of skills of nurses in clinical settings and includes forms that can be used and modified along with material on an accompanying CD.
Purpose:It is intended "specifically for assessing, validating and documenting the skills" of medical-surgical nurses. Skill documentation is important and necessary for state boards of nursing and accreditation bodies.
Audience:Nurses in clinical settings who are responsible for validation and monitoring of skills are the primary audience. The authors are all nurses who have experience in developing continuing education material.
Features:The book begins with a discussion of why competency validation is required, what competency validation is, how it is used in job evaluation, and how to do competency evaluation. The skills sheets for documentation cover simple and more complex skills. The majority of the book is presented in a skills checklist format, and each one is referenced.
Assessment:The first part of the book addresses essential information related to competency. The checklist could be eliminated and that information obtained from other references. The second edition has references listed for all the competencies, something that was not done in the first edition. All information has been updated, and some skills have been deleted and new ones added.