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Unfortunately, the clinical aspect of nursing school only utilizes the performance appraisal tools for students. Although that is extremely beneficial for the school and students adding a 360-degree evaluation could enhance students’ clinical outcomes. A 360-degree evaluation does not just involve the decision of one person, but a peer review as well and self-assessment (Marquis& Huston, 2017). This means other students, other staff, nurses and charge nurses and the student can add input on evaluations. Allowing multiple insight on a student’s performance to a clinical instructor can help ensure the passing of a student is the right decision or it could possibly influence it to change. There are times at clinical when a student will document an assessment of a …show more content…

The students will feel more comfortable to confront a situation that involves another classmate. Also, if the instructor incorporates the actual patient’s feedback it could confirm the student did not complete an assessment. Now instead of the instructor giving a passing grade for the day, a clinical warning can replace it because of false documentation. Multiple sources giving information on a person’s performance can make the evaluation process more accurate (Marquis& Huston, 2017). Allowing the nurses on the unit to share their experience with the student will allow the instructor to have a different perceptive on the student. The nurse may advise the instructor about the nursing student utilizing good nursing judgment. This again could be information the instructor would not know if the nurse was not included in the evaluation process. This could benefit a student who gets nervous when the clinical instructor is around and may not demonstrate quality nursing judgment. An advantage the students gain from this is that multiple people are reviewing their performance, not just

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