African Journal of Nursing and Midwifery

African Journal of Nursing and Midwifery ISSN 2198-4638 Vol. 2 (6), pp. 210-213, June, 2015. © International Scholars Journals

Full Length Research Paper

Assessment of the performance of nursing graduates based on selected task after completing a post registration Baccalaureate programme

*Micheal D. Cusick, Wayne N. Montano and Henry T. Gerard

Department of Nursing, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Trinidad and Tobago, Arima, Trinidad and Tobago.

E-mail: [email protected]

Accepted 18 May, 2015

Abstract

To assess the performance of graduates based on selected nursing duties after completing a post registration Baccalaureate nursing programme of the University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. All 273 graduates of the prsogramme were asked to provide their self-assessment of their performance using a Likert-like scale. Additionally, 110 supervisors rated their satisfaction with graduates’ performance using a self-administered Likert-like questionnaire. Response rates were 67.4% and 60.1% for graduates and supervisors respectively. Results show that 73.4% of the graduates are aged 21-40years, while, 82.2% of the supervisors are 41 years or over. The mean scores from the supervisors were highest in Leadership (4.09) and lowest in “managing challenging situations” (3.22) while Graduates scored 4.41 and 3.87 for “Teaching junior nurses” and “Leadership” respectively. Results have shown high and positive agreement in the scores of the performance of the graduates but significantly discrepant scores on some of the nursing duties (p<0.05).

Keywords: Performance assessment, Nursing Education, programme evaluation and developing countries.