Achieving Clarity in Evaluation of Community/Public Health Nurse Generalist Competencies through Development of a Clinical Performance Evaluation Tool

Public Health Nursing

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 216-227

  Kaiser, Katherine L ^a,b   Rudolph, Elizabeth J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Community public health nursing; Competencies; Performance evaluation; Standards

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLLEGE STUDENT; COMMUNITY CARE; EVALUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEDICAL RECORD; NORMAL HUMAN; NURSING; PUBLIC HEALTH; RELIABILITY; STANDARDIZATION; VALIDATION PROCESS; ADULT; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; EDUCATION; NURSE; NURSING EDUCATION; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; STANDARD;

ADULT; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION, NURSING, BACCALAUREATE; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL; HUMANS; NURSE CLINICIANS; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING;

EID: 0037872198     PISSN: 07371209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.0737-1209.20309.x     Document Type: Article

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