Conducting competency assessments can often seem like just a bureaucratic exercise designed to satisfy The Joint Commission, Magnet and other regulators. Done right, they’re a powerful tool for ensuring competent patient care and for guiding ongoing nurse development. Moving competency validation online gives nurses more time to focus on patient care, helps nurse educators identify and address development needs, and makes staff assignments faster and easier – all of which lead to a safer environment and greater patient satisfaction.
Halogen's eAppraisal™ Healthcare has a build-in competency assessment tool designed to help nurses improve:
- Employee Accountability: Employees can be empowered to manage their own competency validation and even choose from several of your approved verification methods, so they are more invested in the process and better able to manage progress.
- Accessibility: Managers, nurse educators and preceptors can access competency verifications, assessments, and development plans for balancing workloads and following up on development/action plans.
- Organizational Documentation: Competency assessments are centrally stored and providing for improved tracking, reporting, analysis and trending. Accompanying competency validation documentation – case studies, exemplars, and certificates - can be electronically filed in the employee’s records for easy access.
- Compliance: Your compliance information, such as individual and/or group competency assessments, validation methods, development plans, etc. are available at the push of a button.
- On Time Completion: Nothing falls through the cracks. Automated email notifications remind nurses and managers about pending tasks and their due dates.
- Flexibility: Competency assessments can be done independently, or included as part of your performance appraisal process, whichever you prefer.
Get Fingertip Access to Supporting Documentation
Stop scrambling to locate important primary source and competency verification documentation. With eAppraisal Healthcare, all employee talent management documents are centrally stored, electronically, so you can access them with the click of a mouse. Get easy access to competency assessments, development plans, peer reviews, goals, appraisals, even case studies, exemplars, and certificates.
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individual employees’ performance information
