Use this sample and step by step explanation to craft a meaningful employee performance feedback review for an acute care nurse. Find the right words with quality phrases.

An Acute Care Nurse provides advanced nursing care for patients with acute conditions like heart attack, respiratory distress syndrome or shock, pre and post-operative patients as well as perform advanced invasive diagnostic or therapeutic procedures.

Other responsibilities include - providing formal and informal education to other staff members, participating in patients care meetings and conferences, coordinating billing activities with supervising physicians, performing administrative duties that facilitate admission, transfer or discharge of patients, involved in the development of practice protocols, participating in patient's care meetings and conferences, referring patients for specialty treatments or consultations, assisting patients with organizing their health care system activities, assesses the patient's need for family members or caregivers, analyzing any indications, risk complications and cost-benefit tradeoffs.

Employee Performance Review Sample

Employee's Name: Title:
Review Period: __/__/__ to __/__/__ Employee SSN:
Work Location: Supervisor's Name:

Instructions

  1. Rating: Rate the employee against the core skills based on how well he/she demonstrates each skill. Give scores 1, 2, or 3 for each rating depending on the employee's performance.
  2. Comments: Use this area to give examples of employee's performance phrases. The phrases should describe how well an employee has performed on previously set goals based on the given core skill.
  3. Summary: Use this section to give a summary of the employee's strengths and areas for improvement or development. Recommend a step increase for an employee who has met the expectations and performance improvement plans for one who doesn't meet expectations.
  4. Human Resources Review: Human resources manager must examine and indicate whether he/she concurs with the evaluation and comments. If the manager agrees, then he/she must sign the evaluation form. If he/she doesn't concur, then he/she must provide reasons explaining why this is so.
  5. Signatures: Sign the evaluation form and give it to the employee to go through and answer the Self Evaluation Questions. Ask him/her to sign and date the evaluation form before giving it back to the human resources for filing.

Rating Meaning

The employee fails to perform the most important aspects of the job satisfactorily. Requires close guidance to carry out routine jobs. He/she needs significant improvement in all areas. Meetings should be held between the employee and the supervisor to discuss performance deficiencies.

1

Employee routinely meets and exceeds expectations in all areas of responsibility. Produces high-quality work that at times exceeds expectations. Consistently meets the most critical annual goals. Occasionally produces timely and accurate results.

2

The employee consistently and significantly exceeds the communicated expectations by producing exceptionally high-quality work. He/she demonstrates exceptional knowledge of his/her duties and is highly recognized by others as an authority in his/her area of work.

3

Supervisor's Feedback

Skill

Comments

Rating

VERBAL COMMUNICATION: Verbal Communication is the use of tones and language to relay a message; it aids as a vehicle for expressing ideas, concepts and it, is critical to the daily running of the business.

Maintaining eye contact is quite a problem and appears to be shy when talking to people.

Speaks too much and does not give room to others to talk or share their thoughts.

1

TEAMWORK SKILLS: Teamwork is the process of collaboratively working with a group of people with an aim to achieve a set goal within a business ensuring that the staff and management cooperate using their skills and provide constructive feedback.

Has a good way of solving team conflicts and ensures that peace and harmony are upheld.

Encourages other team members to continue to improve themselves and to do well at all time.

2

APPRAISAL AND EVALUATION SKILLS: Appraisal and Evaluation Skills are services that allow employers to assess their employees? contributions to the organization for the period they have been working with them.

Highly indecisive and often produces mediocre results that are not competent

Demonstrates little or no willingness to learn new skills or impact others

1

DEDICATION TO WORK: Dedication to Work is a devotion or setting aside the scheduled time that you are required to work each day consistently without fail as well as being on time and giving 100% of your efforts to doing quality work.

Only dedicated to the company whenever it is convenient to do so

Gets into trouble for demoralizing other workers who are giving it their best

1

FLEXIBILITY: Flexibility is an important skill that allows employers and employees to make an arrangement about working on maintaining a work/life balance to help organizations improve the productivity and efficiency of their balance.

Embraces change with renewed energy to work hard and deliver as per requirements

Persuades others to keep calm in time of storms and focus on the primary goals

2

PHYSICAL ABILITIES: Physical Abilities is the ability of one's strengths and limitations that are also known as the individual resources to perform well at the tasks given.

Successfully finds new effective ways to perform difficult tasks that nobody wants to handle

Consistently watching for new measures to help the team overcome the challenges

2

SELF AWARENESS: Self Awareness is the ability to have a sound understanding of who you are as a person and how to relate to the world in which you live by understanding your strengths and weaknesses and how to manage them in the workplace.

Does not create time after work to think about the day or meditate about one's own life

Always unable to set boundaries and gives in quickly to demands of other colleagues

1

ENJOYMENT OF THE JOB: Enjoyment of the Job is the ability to enjoy what you do rather than enjoying what you earn from it.

Does not look for new ways to make things work; works with the same routine thus finds work monotonous

Does not complete tasks and projects on time and often complains about how hard it is to accomplish them

1

HANDLING STRESS: Handling Stress is the skill to balance the requirements of the job and your abilities or available resources in performing it.

Spends too much time on one task by going back several times to polish and rearrange in order to get the result one wants thus, misses deadlines for other tasks

Disassociates oneself from colleagues when faced with a difficult situation

1

PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS: Personal Relationships is the relationship between individuals who have or have had a continuing relationship of any nature either professional or informal.

Engages in inappropriate relationships or presents an unprofessional side of oneself when connecting with colleagues on social media

Jumps into the issues or matters of other employees in order to "spread the fire" but not to rescue them

1

Self Evaluation

Self Evaluation Question

Employee Comments

VERBAL COMMUNICATION:

How well can you rate your verbal skills and what are you doing to improve?

Do you give people ample time to talk before you state your point or views?

[employee comments]
TEAMWORK SKILLS:

Do you always take credit for what others have done or you appreciate their efforts?

Are you always aware of your roles and responsibilities within the team and how do you feel about them?

[employee comments]
APPRAISAL AND EVALUATION SKILLS:

How do you balance quality and quantity in terms of the performance?

Are you able to schedule your work to match the company's calendar?

[employee comments]
DEDICATION TO WORK:

Are you available to do what is expected of you within a set timeline?

Are you willing to change in areas that are not too impressive?

[employee comments]
FLEXIBILITY:

Are you aware of any negligence found in you that is bringing other's down?

Are you able to handle project concerns that are required to complete projects?

[employee comments]
PHYSICAL ABILITIES:

Are you well equipped for the tasks you applied for?

Do you communicate effectively to ensure adequate use of equipment or machines?

[employee comments]
SELF AWARENESS:

Is there a time when you were surprised about the positive impact your words or behavior had on a colleague or client?

Is there a time when you received feedback about your work, and you had to disagree? What happened?

[employee comments]
ENJOYMENT OF THE JOB:

Describe a time when you went beyond your employer's expectations in order to get the job done

If you find yourself working with a "boring" team, how do you keep yourself and others motivated?

[employee comments]
HANDLING STRESS:

How do you know a colleague is stressed up? What skills do you use to help colleagues manage stress?

What ways do you use to identify your stress triggers? What do you do to make sure that the same stressful situation does not reappear?

[employee comments]
PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS:

Describe a time when you have been able to address an angry customer and build a great relationship. What was the problem and how did you handle it?

Describe a time when you have met resistance while trying to build a relationship with a colleague. How did you deal with it?

[employee comments]

Summary

Sections 1-4: To be completed by the supervisor

Section 5: To be completed by the employee

1. Exceeds Job Related Expectations

2. Areas to improve

3. Goals completed since last performance feedback

4. Goals for next period

5. Employee comments

Signatures

I acknowledge that I discussed this performance feedback with my supervisor. My signature does not mean that I agree or disagree with this appraisal.
Employee: Date:
Supervisor: Date:
Human Resources: Date:

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