Chapter 12: Documenting Evaluative Criteria
Overview:
- Debates criterion-referenced measurements against norm-referenced measurements
- Discusses formative and summative techniques
- Discusses subjective measurements and objective measurements
- Outlines reliability and validity
- Outlines different clinical indicators
- Describes the continual process of evaluation
Description:
Evaluative criteria are measurement parameters that are based upon an accepted rule, standard or principle. All phases of care need to be clearly documented and evaluated. If the documentary evidence of evaluation is inadequate, all future care actions are in jeopardy of being unsuitable or even potentially hazardous. This chapter guides nurses on how to accurately use the parameters of evaluation and correctly document it.
Topics:
- Introduction
- Criterion-referenced vs norm-referenced measurements
- Criterion-referenced measurement
- Norm-referenced measurements
- Formative vs summative techniques
- Formative evaluation
- Summative evaluation
- Subjective measurements vs objective measurements
- Subjective evaluation
- Objective evaluation
- Reliability and validity
- Reliability
- Validity
- Reliability and validity
- Clinical indicators
- Continuous process
- Conclusion
Speaker/Author:
Sue Forster
Sue completed her general nurse training in the Queen Alexandra Royal Naval Nursing Service in the UK and abroad. She has extensive clinical, educational, and managerial experience at senior levels gained from a long nursing career in Europe, Australia and Africa. For the past ten years Sue has managed her own educational consultancy business. Her special interests include gerontic care, continuous quality improvement, and human-resource management. Sue is dedicated to the education and empowerment of her nursing colleagues through the provision of sound evidence-based practice within an holistic framework of quality care.
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