Coaching and Evaluating New Graduate Nurses
Don’t let new graduate nurses face clinical challenges alone! Discover how you can empower them with the essential skills needed to ensure optimal patient outcomes through Tanner’s Clinical Judgment Model. Shape the future of nursing, elevate your practice, and enhance patient safety by increasing your knowledge of this leading framework for mentorship and coaching.
Course Details
Overview
Less than 10% of new graduate nurses possess sound clinical judgment skills, resulting in poor patient safety and outcomes. Tanner’s Clinical Judgment Model seeks to challenge this by creating a model that effectively mentors and coaches new graduate nurses in developing solid clinical judgement while ensuring patients are safely cared for. Explore this article to learn about the leading framework for teaching nurses:
- How to recognize and respond to patient deterioration
- The four key processes for expert clinical judgment
- How you can standardize terminology, coaching, and evaluation criteria
Key Learning Outcomes
- Explain the cognitive processes that form clinical judgment in Tanner's Clinical Judgment Model.
- Describe the Mentor's Clinical Judgment Coaching Tool questions and evaluation strategies.
- Describe coaching strategies that can help develop clinical judgment.
Presented by:
Carolyn Kerns, EdD, RN, FNP, CNE, and Monika Wedgeworth, EdD, RN, CNE
The authors work at the University of Alabama Capstone College of Nursing in Tuscaloosa. Carolyn Kerns is an assistant professor and Monika Wedgeworth is an associate professor.
