Competency Based Nursing Education: Guide to Achieving Outstanding Learner Outcomes » (New Edition)

Marion G. Anema, PhD, RN, has held faculty appointments at a variety of educational institutions, including most recently, Associate Director, Nursing Programs, College of Health Professions, Western Governors University (2007 - 2008), Mentor & Faculty Chair, Walden University (2001-2007), Dean, School of Nursing, Tennessee State University (1990-2001), and Assistant Dean, Texas Woman's University, Dallas. (1979-1990). She holds certificates as an online instructor, in case management, online quality management, and intensive Bioethics (Georgetown Univ). Her scholarly articles have been published in DCCN, JONA, Nursing, J of Nursing Education, Nurse Educator, International Nursing Review, Computers in Nursing, J of Continuing Education in Nursing, among others.

Jan McCoy, PhD, RN, held early career roles as a school nurse, flight nurse, and cardiac cath circulating and scrub nurse. For the majority of her nursing career, she has held nursing appointments at Central Wyoming College (1986-1999), including Chair & Director, Nursing Faculty, Chair, Prof/Tech Div & AH Division, Dir, Distance Education/Lifelong Learning. More recently, Dr. McCoy has served as nursing faculty at Walden University, Individual Service Coordinator, Wyoming Dept of Health, and Independent Contractor & Consultant for Sylvan Learning Systems (2003-2006), as well as interim Director of Nursing Programs & Mentor, Western Governors University, Salt Lake City, Utah (2006 - 2008).

The need for competency-based education (CBE) in nursing has been recognized for years. CBE provides a way to help ensure that learners are competent at the end of educational endeavors. This book is designed as a resource for nurse educators who are responsible for diverse education programs.

Authors Anema and McCoy bring together all the elements of CBE, and provide a road map to develop, implement, and evaluate competency-based approaches to nursing education. The book provides valuable guidelines for developing organizational strategies, new care delivery approaches, and project planning tools. Guidance on performance assessment tools and data collection is also included.

Key features:

• Explains why CBE is needed and how it can help improve current education programs

• Presents practical guidelines on how to transition to the CBE approach

• Provides helpful guidance on developing valid and reliable assessments

• Includes critical information on data collection and the use of data to verify achievement of outcomes

• Contains practice activities at the end of each chapter to simulate real-life situations
  

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Reviewer:Janice K. Warrington, MSNEd, RN(Delaware Technical & Community College)
Description:The book is designed as a resource for educators who are responsible for nursing programs.
Purpose:The authors provide an outline of the processes essential to the implementation of competency-based education as well as a detailed explanation of what it is. The book includes tools for developing, implementing, and evaluating competency-based education and challenges educators to reconsider revising their current teaching methods.
Audience:The audience includes advanced practice nurses and faculty who are responsible for developing educational programs. Dr. Marion Anema has written extensively on nursing education and the practice of nursing. Dr. Jan McKoy has held appointments as nursing faculty and department chair.
Features:The book starts with an overview of competency-based nursing that includes the theory and driving forces behind the concept as well as the pros and cons, allowing readers to see both sides and draw their own conclusions. It then provides a complete guide to essential processes for developing competency statements to address all levels and types of learning as well as developing objective and performance assessments. The authors also discuss why competency-based education is important to the profession and provide strategies to overcome implementation challenges.
Assessment:This is a jumping-off point for nurse educators who are looking to make changes in their curriculum and methods of teaching nursing.

Preface xi

1 Vision of Competency-Based Education Marion G. Anema 1

Conceptualizing Competence 4

Reasons for Redesigning Programs, Curricula, or Courses 13

2 Developing and Applying Competency-Based Education Marion G. Anema 31

Essential Elements of CBE 32

Models of CBE 36

Organizing Strategies 38

Multiple Types of Assessments 40

Learning Styles 41

Approaches to Demonstrating Competency 41

Reliability, Validity, Precision, and Costs 43

Assessment Reporting and Use of Results 43

Getting Started 45

Developing a CBE Plan 46

Project Planning Tools 47

Decision-Making Roles and Responsibilities 49

Support for CBE 49

Summary of a Plan 50

3 Applying a Model to Develop and Implement a Competency-Based Education Program/Course Marion G. Anema 57

COPA Model Framework 58

Application to Academic Education Programs 68

Application to Staff-Development Programs 73

Application to Patient/Consumer Programs 81

4 Transitioning to the CBE Approach Janice L. McCoy 95

How to Write Competency Statements 96

Writing Learning Statements That Lead to Competent Performance 105

Effective Methods for Learning Competencies 113

Decisions About Measuring Competency 120

5 Developing Valid and Reliable Assessments Janice L. McCoy Marion G. Anema 129

Validity and Reliability 130

Assessment Development 132

Objective-Based Assessments 133

Performance-Based Assessments 143

6 Data Collection and Use to Verify Achievement of Outcomes Marion G. Anema 159

Purposes of Outcome Evaluation 160

External and Internal Requirements for Program Outcome Assessment 162

Theories and Models for Program Evaluation 164

Elements of Comprehensive Program Outcome Assessments165

Qualitative Data 172

Displaying Data 173

Trending 174

Structure for Using Data for Program Improvement 175

Sharing Outcomes 177

Maintaining Continuous Quality Improvement 181

7 Making the Change to CBE Janice L. McCoy Marion G. Anema 189

Is There a Problem? 190

Why It Is Important 191

Commitment to Change 194

Strategies to Support CBE Initiatives 194

What Is Needed for Change 199

Appendix: Additional Resources 207

Index 219