Features

Meets Industry Guidelines

Competency-based content that addresses development needs across Pre, Peri, and Post Op areas

Customizable assignments

Prebuilt electronic checklists to validate skills

Implementation guide offering expert recommendations for successfull rollout

Can be configured to work with HealthStream Learning Center and other 3rd party LMSs

Quickly Identify Individual Gaps

Leveraging powerful technology, leaders can identify potential preceptors and areas of risk quickly and without bias across 8 competency groupings: Acute Conditions, Chronic Conditions, Diagnostics, Leadership, Professionalism, and Soft Skills, Patient Assessment, Patient Management, Pharmacology, and Safety and Infection Control.

Assess Knowledge and Clinical Judgment

The valid and reliable knowledge assessments include 5,000+ specialty & population-based questions aligned to 8 competency groupings. The clinical judgment assessment engages learners through interactive video-based scenarios and chat responses to evaluate: Problem Identification, Clinical Observations, Problem Management, and Prioritization.

Evaluate Skills Experience

The Skills Self-Evaluation allows the learner to rate their current experience level of specific nursing skills related to their specialty. The rating scale includes: No Experience, Limited Experience, Experienced or Highly Skilled. 

Assign Personalized Development Plans

Following the valid and reliable assessments, jane analyzes where there is opportunity for improvement and curates a recommended development plan based on gaps in knowledge and clinical judgment.

Report on Objective Competency Measures

Offering valuable insights on performance, such as learner scores compared to the national average and performance by quartile. As well, a re-assessment view to determine knowledge and clinical judgment gain/loss, the variance between knowledge and clinical judgment performance, and scoring over time.    

Leverage 2,000+ CE Courses

A combination of the most expansive CE library offered in healthcare with access to 1,800+ multi-disciplinary courses and hundreds of microlearning modules for highly targeted development. Leverage content for CEs, orientation, professional development or to address initiatives with unlimited access. 

Offer 40+ Cert Prep Programs with Mobile App

The 40+ specialty certification prep programs each feature a practice test and 100+ study cards to help optimize success rate. These can be accessed on an unlimited basis via the HealthStream platform or the highly utilized mobile app, available on Apple and Google app stores.

Author and Validate Skills

The “gold standard” for enabling required, digital documentation of skills-based competencies. Built for healthcare, our mobile-enabled tool allows qualified evaluators to validate novice staff at the point of care or at a skills fair. Author an unlimited amount of checklists and leverage audit reporting for surveys.

Streamline Onboarding Tasks

Given turnover is at an all-time high, it’s time to organize and manage onboarding tasks at scale. Consolidate all onboarding tasks in one checklist by role, including headers, discrete task lists, hyperlinking to external systems, and more. Your staff will appreciate knowing where they are in their orientation process.

Evaluate Performance-Based Competency

Finally, an easy way to measure ongoing performance with rapid authoring capabilities, including hyperlinking, attachments, flexible competency measures, and custom instructions.  Measure performance-based competencies on a Likert scale, a novice to expert scale, or by method of validation. It’s your choice.

Survey with Joint Commission Checklists

Access 100+ pre-built survey checklists developed by the Joint Commission to better prepare for audit and accreditation surveys. Several categories of survey checklists include: continuous standards compliance, safety culture, medication management, performance improvement, sentinel events, root cause analysis, and workplace violence.  

Develop Preceptors Effectively

Co-developed with Sigma, the award-winning Preceptor Program focuses on the knowledge, skills, and attitudes preceptors need to be effective in their role. Based on Beth Ulrich’s work in Mastering Precepting, it includes assessments, video-based scenarios, and tools for a blended learning experience.

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