4. Clinical Judgment – Incorporate clinical judgment to ensure quality outcomes when managing patient care.
Your outcomes progress evaluation is an important part of the evaluation process. The specific purposes of the outcomes progress evaluation are to (1) help you plan, organize, and document your learning during the clinical practicum; (2) help faculty understand the degree of insight you have into your learning; and (3) help you and the faculty to evaluate how you are meeting program outcomes.
1. A summary discussion of experiences and patients cared for. We consider families, parents, and significant others important to discuss along with the primary patient.
2. Discuss utilization or incorporation of concepts from all previous courses – Include care related growth and development, caring, advocacy, teaching, communication, culture and spirituality.
3. This one is very important: Note what you would do differently if you had the opportunity. We are interested in decisions, actions, statements, and any other patient/community-oriented actions and clinical decisions made.
4. When the outcome progress evaluation is returned respond to comments (with contrasting color ink) made on your work. This is critical, to ensure that you have an ongoing written dialogue.
Use the opportunity to reflect on both the transferable skills that you are developing, as well as the course-specific skills you are putting into practice in the clinical area.
Here are some questions you could ask yourself to aid reflective self-evaluation:
✓ In what areas/situations do you feel you have made progress?
✓ Specifically what have you learned?
✓ What strengths can you identify?
✓ How will you use the information to care for your patient, promote health, and, when disease is present, provide for early diagnosis and prompt treatment, and/or restore and rehabilitate the health.
✓ What has contributed to this progress?
✓ What have you learned about the way you learn?
✓ What would you do differently next time?
✓ What other options were there in that situation?
✓ What would have been the consequences of another action?
✓ Has another similar incident arisen again and how did you react?
✓ Think about some events/ situations that have taken place and how you felt at the time, e.g. confident, tense, frustrated, certain, doubtful etc. Use these reactions to identify strengths, and areas that need development.
✓ Have you identified any areas of weakness?
✓ Are there potential situations where you can work on these? How
