Critical Elements of Performance Checklist;Evaluation in clinical nursing education involves the cognitive, affective, and psychomotordomains. The psychomotor domain involves the performance of tasks.

Critical Elements of Performance checklist

Evaluation in clinical nursing education involves the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains. The psychomotor domain involves the performance of tasks. Most nursing education programs have a “skills checklist” or some other mechanism for tracking how students demonstrate competency in specific tasks. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (2008) lists technical skills as one of the Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice.

Assessing competency in technical skills requires an understanding of critical elements of performance. Each element must be successfully demonstrated to arrive at a judgment of competency for the specific task.

For this portion of the assigned work in GNUR 509, each student will select or be assigned a psychomotor/technical skill from a list of those commonly required in a pre-licensure* nursing education program. Students will then identify the critical elements of performance for the selected skill and submit these critical elements for grading.

The following information must be submitted for grading: (Suctioning)

1. Identify the core practice competencies included in the skill

2. Identify the critical elements of performance for the skill:

A. 4-6 critical elements of the performance

B. Language must be clear, unambiguous, and have common interpretation

C. Competency judgment requires meeting 100% of the elements

3. Identify the most effective method(s) for learning and documenting competency in the skill, including an explanation or rationale to support the effectiveness of the method(s) for learning and documenting competency.

Submit the assignment in outline format and please refer these guidelines below. other competencies may be suggested based on student interest

Critical elements should be discrete, simple, observable behaviors that we are mandatory for the specific area

On average 4 to 6 critical elements are usually enough for whole checklist

Language must be clear, unambiguous, and have a common interpretation

Include behaviors that are at the high end of thinking and doing continuum that subsume lower level actions

Include only actions and skills necessary and essential for competence

Critical elements are expected of all who perform the skill 100% of the elements must be performed as stated.