A Practical Guide To Competencies

Improving performance is the number one goal of any manager, HR or line. Whiddett and Hollyforde show how to create and implement a competencies framework that will help you to improve performance levels within your organisation.

Designed as a research-based yet matter-of-fact guide for beginning and future scientist-practitioners, A Practical Guide to Building Professional Competencies in School Psychology skillfully augments the reader’s training, supervision, and experience by providing a framework for honing essential skills in the field. This reader-friendly, evidence-based text encourages the continuing development of expertise in communication and collaborative skills, diversity awareness, technical knowledge, and other domains critical to building and maintaining an ethical, meaningful practice. Each chapter in this must-have volume examines a core area of expertise in depth, and provides checklists (linked to competencies set out in NASP’s Blueprint III) and the Development and Enhancement of Competencies Assessment Form are included to enable readers to gain a more complete understanding of their professional strengths and needs. The skill sets covered include: Developing cross-cultural competencies. Evaluating students with emotional and behavioral problems. Assessing student skills using a variety of approaches. Preventing and intervening in crisis situations. Consulting with families, colleagues, and the community. Facilitating mental health services in the school setting. A Practical Guide to Building Professional Competencies in School Psychology provides an invaluable set of professional development tools for new practitioners and graduate students in school psychology.

This is a practical resource guide presenting lecturers and students with material which will help apply the theory of multicultural school psychology and counselling in practice. Its emphasis is on helping educational psychologists to develop and refine multicultural competencies and assessments.

Designed to help medical educators implement better assessment methods, tools, and models directly into training programs, Practical Guide to the Evaluation of Clinical Competence, 2nd Edition, by Drs. Eric S. Holmboe, Steven J. Durning, and Richard E. Hawkins, is a hands-on, authoritative guide to outcomes-based assessment in clinical education. National and international experts present an organized, multifaceted approach and a diverse combination of methods to help you perform effective assessments. This thoroughly revised edition is a valuable resource for developing, implementing, and sustaining effective systems for evaluating clinical competence in medical school, residency, and fellowship programs.

A Practical Guide to Teaching and Assessing the ACGME Core Competencies, Second Edition Elizabeth A. Rider, MSW, MD, FAAP; Ruth H. Nawotniak, MS, CTAGME Teach, assess, and document the competencies with this best-selling, step-by-step guide. This book and downloadable tools provide a fully updated, step-by-step guide to help residency program directors, coordinators, and medical educators teach, assess, and document all six ACGME core competencies. With expanded content from 11 experts in the field, this resource offers best practices, sample tools, and in-depth expert insights for each of the competencies. Moreover, this second edition includes learning activities for each competency, as well as a new chapter on "the hidden curriculum." What's new in this edition? New chapter examining the "hidden curriculum" in GME, focusing on ways that the culture of the learning environment influences how residents learn to treat their patients and coworkers, as well as approaches to align the hidden and formal curricula Six new contributing authors who share their best practices for teaching and assessing the core competencies Fully updated reviews of the medical education literature to ensure you have the most up-to-date methods for documenting and measuring resident competency Expanded evaluation tools, forms, and resources. With this book and downloadable tools, you will be able to: Get the in-depth understanding needed to teach the competencies to faculty and residents Use sample tools, forms, and methodologies as a basis for teaching and assessing the competencies Save time otherwise spent searching for competency-specific articles and resources, synthesizing the information, and developing tools from scratch Master difficult competencies like practice-based learning and improvement and systems-based practice Develop objective measures and evaluations for the traditionally more subjective competencies like professionalism and interpersonal and communication skills This resource is organized by competency for your convenience. Each competency chapter includes: Definition of the competency and introduction Teaching suggestions Assessment tools Sample forms Curriculum ideas

Hospitals and healthcare systems around the world have attempted to build and sustain evidence-based practice (EBP) cultures and environments, yet they have struggled to clearly understand what EBP competency means. Implementing the Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) Competencies in Healthcare clears up that confusion and serves as a guide for clinicians, leaders, faculty, EBP mentors, and students in achieving EBP competency, facilitating evidence-based decision making in daily practice, and accelerating the speed at which research knowledge is translated into real-world settings to improve health outcomes and decrease healthcare costs. Authors Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk, Lynn Gallagher-Ford, and Ellen Fineout-Overholt provide step-by-step explanations and case scenarios that illustrate realistic advice and ready-to-use resources to help organizations integrate EBP broadly and deeply across their infrastructure to improve patient care quality and safety.