A new nurse is confused about using evaluative measures when caring for patients and asks the charge nurse for an explanation. Which response by the charge nurse is most accurate?
a. "Evaluative measures are multiple-page documents used to evaluate nurse performance."
b. "Evaluative measures include assessment data used to determine whether patients have met their expected outcomes and goals."
c. "Evaluative measures are used by quality assurance nurses to determine the progress a nurse is making from novice to expert nurse."
d. "Evaluative measures are objective views for completion of nursing interventions."
ANS: B
You conduct evaluative measures to determine if your patients met expected outcomes, not if nursing interventions were completed. Evaluative measures are assessment skills and techniques. Evaluative measures are not multiple-page documents, and they are used to assess the patient's status, not the nurse's performance or progress from novice to expert.
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