Moving completion of evaluation from an infrequent process to a daily process shifts focus from identifying deficits to monitoring progress and re-focusing goals to ensure a learner can practice independently after orientation. These measure the Learner’s development of clinical judgment skills and their interactions with providers and their preceptors. 

This is no different than a nurse monitoring vital signs and responding to changes in condition.

Benchmark Performance

The system features five types of evaluations:

• Daily Learner
• Daily Preceptor
• Provider
• Formal Learner
• Formal Preceptor

The daily evaluations are designed to work well on a mobile device, and reminders can automatically be sent at the end of each shift as an e-mail or text reminder.

There is a natural conflict of interest between educators and those managing operations. The Orientation Nurse concept is central to addressing this conflict of interest. The Orientation Nurse is an experienced Preceptor who focuses on developing an individual Learner. The Orientation Nurse collaborates with the Preceptors and Leadership to make informed decisions about a Learner's preparedness to practice independently.

Preceptor Development

This system allows for easy organization of all the data associated with orientation. Matching data across 21 tables allows the Educator to gain insight and individualize the orientation process. It assists the Educator in demonstrating the Return on Investment for the span of a colleague’s career.

Knowledge Checks allow for the classic testing of knowledge acquisition but are flexible enough to adjunct a course utilizing technology to conduct a poll or play a game. All of the data can be exported and further analyzed or researched.

The Curriculum section allows the Educator to document the recurring learning events, which form a schedule and transcript of completed events. Key elements of the curriculum, such as the topics, course outcome, objectives, and description of learning, are documented.

All the learning in a classroom, simulation center, unit, etc., is tracked and automatically assembled into a transcript for both the Learner and the Preceptor. Required orientation documentation can also be verified and accessed via the Transcript. The Transcript is readily available to the leadership team for regulatory agency site visits.

A preceptor can also be formally assessed, aware of their strengths, express their challenges, realize opportunities, and create action plans for further development.

Review individual performance compared to a standard of care or the more extensive department’s performance. They are leveraging the curriculum to overlay when learning occurred vs. the outcome. It potentially shows how the learning event is returning on its investment or where a new method or resources are needed to make the desired impact.

Sepsis Outcomes

Leaders have a more concise view of the progress learners are making. There are tools to help leaders know when to anticipate a learner will be integrated into operations. Leaders also have access to Dashboards that will help them support educators’ efforts, seeing the ROI or opportunities for improvement.

While the application is designed to be intuitive, there is also extensive documentation to support users.

Schedule Learning Events, Courses (single and multi-day), document unavailability. These events later become part of a Learner and Preceptor's Transcript. This data is also used when measuring outcomes to identify correlations between content learned and care delivered.

Keep Learners and Preceptors up to date with future learning events, engage them during events, and follow up with evaluations and course surveys using e-mail and text messages.