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Karen Siroky1, Bette Case Di Leonardi
1Karen Siroky, MSN, BSN, RN-BC, is Senior Director, Clinical Programs, AMN Healthcare, Inc, San Diego, California. Bette Case Di Leonardi, PhD, MSN, BSN, RN-BC, is Independent Consultant, Consultant to AMN Healthcare, Inc, Chicago, Illinois.
Abstract:
Nursing professional development practitioners play an active, vital role in shaping, implementing, and evaluating competency models in their organizations. This article describes a process for developing and continuously improving knowledge assessment examinations, one component of a competency model. The article defends the use of specialty-specific medication knowledge assessment examinations. The authors recommend future investigations to link nurses' knowledge assessment results to performance in practice and to analyze costs and benefits of knowledge assessment examinations.
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