In the First Phase of the Performance Appraisal Process, the Nurse

question 7

Multiple Choice

In the first phase of the performance appraisal process, the nurse manager prepares for the interview with the nurse.What should the nurse manager plan in preparation for the performance appraisal?

• A)Anecdotal notes from other staff
• B)Complaints from patients and families
• C)Documentation of examples of performance
• D)Documentation of medication errors

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Definitions:

Frequencies

The counts or occurrences of specific events or characteristics in a set of data.

Central Tendency

A statistical measure that identifies a single value as representative of the middle of a dataset, commonly by using the mean, median, or mode.

Variance

A measure of the distribution of data points in a data set around the mean, indicating how spread out the data points are.

Z-score

A statistical measure representing the number of standard deviations a data point is from the mean of its data set, used in standardizing scores for comparison.