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Performance Evaluations
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Posted almost 5 years ago
Performance Evaluations Just curious about the way performance evals are done in different parts of the country and different settings.
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| Posted almost 5 years ago Just thinking about this becuase I ave been on my job over a year now and not had an evaluation yet. |
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| Posted almost 5 years ago I have not worked any place that included peer evautions. I do not think that is a good idea. |
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| Posted almost 5 years ago We are to have our evals yearly.When i was supervisor at a home care agency it was yearly as well, except for the 30d 60d 90 d on new hires.The format is universal and i feel doesnt always reflect the person is they are very good.I have never worked at a place where peer review is used, i could see the good and bad in both of them. |
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| Posted almost 5 years ago One hospital that I worked in required that we do our own eval before we went to our review. Usually, the one doing our evals had no idea what our work patterns were. Did your nurse manager ever work side by side with you? Mine never did. |
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| Posted almost 5 years ago Yes, mine always did.I did have my employess do a seperate eval of me as their supervisor, to help myself improve in that aspect.A good eval should be one where you go thru it w/ your manager thoroughly, and for them to give examples of why you got the scores you were given..Evaluations are to help you improve,learn and enhance your abilities, also to work on weaker areas, nobody is perfect and could improve in some way or another. |
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| Posted almost 5 years ago At the hospital I use to work at we had yearly evaluations. Or were suppose to. They came around in October. My first one ended up being done by a wanna be assistant nurse manager. My last one which was due in October wasn't done until January by the assistant nurse manager, and she asked me to back date it for November. You are not suppose to get your annual raise until these are done. I got my raise when I was suppose to so I wasn't worried about it. Working nights I never ever saw my nurse manager. She had monthly staff meetings and that was the only time I saw her. Even on first shift I don't think she ever made an apperance on the floor unless there was a patient complaint. She was a terrible nurse manager, and I just did not have any use for her.
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| Posted almost 5 years ago Evals are only as good as the person(s) filling them out and the quality of information written in them, if they are simply something I have to do every year then why bother... |
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| Posted almost 5 years ago
Kayak: In most facilities raises are determined by the evaluations. The evaluations are usually weighted in such a way that it is very difficult to give employees an above average or excellent. That is because of the way the scoring criteria are written. I wish I had a sample or two of evaluation forms to post here. |
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| Posted almost 5 years ago Unfortunately at our facility if your are ranked "middle performer" or "high performer" you get the same 3% raise- no raise if "low performer"... |
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| Posted almost 5 years ago That is why i feel most evals in regards to raises being based on them is too generic. |
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| Posted almost 5 years ago Agreed. They are like care plans. Not idividualized at all. No real chance to "win" |
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| Posted almost 5 years ago I agree also. The topics on the evals are just plain evasive and no clear cut way for an employee to shine. |
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| Posted almost 5 years ago I have read before that you should keep track of your own performance. When you get a pat on the back from a manager, coworker, or patient, write it down. Keep track of your over time. Keep track of anything "extra" that you do for the unit. Toot your own horn when you go to the eval session |
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| Posted almost 5 years ago You have to toot your own horn. Keep everything together in one file so you have it ready to go on performance eval day. It may or may not do any good. |
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| Posted almost 5 years ago Performance evals. are nothing to be afraid of IF you do your job the way it should be done every day - day in and day out.. Good advice ~ get all your "ducks in a row" before the eval. in case there is a discrepancy. |
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| Posted over 4 years ago I think most epople are not afraid of them. The things just stink. |
