Measure What Matters: Ensuring an Effective Health Care Competency Program
by HealthStream
Published On: Nov 17, 2014Updated On: Nov 25, 2014 As the field of health care gets even more serious about delivering patient-centered, value-based care, nurses and other staff members are facing new responsibilities and learning requirements.
It is an ideal time to:
- Review your competency programs.
- Review your competency assessment goals.
- Create strategies targeted toward building and maintaining an advanced workforce.
Measure What Matters: Ensuring an Effective Health Care Competency Program is a HealthStream paper that helps organizations examine their competency programs and assessment goals. It reviews the following:
- Competence vs. Competency.
- Elements of a Successful Competency Assessment Program.
- Setting Competency Program Goals.
- 2 Reasons Competency Assessments Matter.
- Matching Validation Methods to Competencies.
- Adopting Checklists Enterprise-Wide.
- Does your organization overuse checklists?
Health care organizations understand that they need to evaluate the competency of their staff. Big changes happening in the health care industry continue to sharpen the focus on competency programs.
Staff must attain higher levels of education and competency in order to meet challenging clinical care and business goals.