Use this sample and step by step explanation for setting meaningful and inspiring employee performance goals for an intensive care unit clinical nurse specialist.

An Intensive care unit clinical nurse specialist is tasked with the primary role of using his/her advanced nursing skills and knowledge to care for patients who are in critical condition and with high-risk life-threating health problems. They help to give complex assessments and treatment to the critically ill patients.

Beside that primary role of caring and treatment of patients in ICU they can get to perform other clinical duties like; assisting physicians in performing certain clinical procedures, conducting diagnostic medicals tests, treating patients wounds, providing advanced life support to patients, patient advocacy and responding to life-saving situations in accordance with the nursing clinical standard procedures.

Employee Performance Goals Sample

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

Instructions

  1. Setting Goals: List specific goals in the space provided below each competency under "Performance Goals". Assign an appropriate timeline for each goal as well as numeric or financial terms to measure the goal.
  2. Employee Comments: The employee must comment next to each goal under "Employee Comments" with "Okay" for goals which he/she feels comfortable working with, and "Needs Clarification" for goals which he/she believes need to be discussed further. An employee who is comfortable with all the goals can sign the goals at this stage.
  3. Summary: Give a summary of the total time estimated for the employee to have achieved the goals. State action plans and specific milestones to track the goals. Any additional comments agreed between the employee and the supervisor should be noted here.
  4. Human Resources Review: Human resources personnel must confirm that the goals are specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. He/she must then sign the goals in the "Human Resource" section provided under "Signatures".
  5. Signatures: When discussion of the goals has been completed and consensus has been reached, sign the goals and let the employee sign too. Send the final copy to the human resources for inclusion in the employee's professional records.

Performance Goals for Next Period

Performance Goals

Employee Comments

ORGANIZED WORKPLACE:

Show enough willingness to keep the personal workspace clean and tidy.

Make it a responsibility to report any issues that might be interfering with proper work organization.

[employee comments goal]
NEGOTIATION SKILLS:

Show willingness to take more charge of negotiations and to direct it in a way that it should go.

Strive to raise or ask relevant questions that will be of benefit to the negotiation process.

[employee comments goal]
TEAMWORK SKILLS:

To pay close attention to what others have to say and not to interrupt them.

To always take full responsibility for any of my negative actions.

[employee comments goal]
MULTI-TASKING:

Create time for the most important task of the day before one sits down to multi-task

Assign complex tasks or projects for the time one is most productive such as early in the morning

[employee comments goal]
COLLABORATING WITH OTHERS:

Listen to various perspectives from different personalities in the team in order to spark and refine solutions that work well for each team member

Create synergy within the team, departments, and alliances across the company

[employee comments goal]
EMPATHY:

Look for ways to create connections with colleagues, avoid keeping distance and show willingness to participate in their activities

Volunteer in different community activities in order to understand the needs of people and offer help where appropriate

[employee comments goal]
FOLLOWING DIRECTIONS:

Stop assuming things and ask for clarification on things that one does not understand before handling any task to avoid making unnecessary mistakes

Learn the way behind what one is supposed to do in order to put the pieces together and make sense in one's tasks

[employee comments goal]
PERSONAL DRIVE:

Set high but realistic goals and develop strategies to meet them even under high pressure or when facing challenges

Learn how to control and respond to one's own emotions in order to avoid causing conflicts in the workplace

[employee comments goal]
PERSUADING OTHERS:

Investigate the benefits of own idea to potential supporters before presenting it and persuading them to support it

Understand the needs and concerns of the person one is persuading and put own points across clearly and concisely

[employee comments goal]
USING COMMON SENSE:

Separate own values from those of other employees and do what one thinks is right no matter what

Define goals and set a clear plan that will help one to accomplish them successfully

[employee comments goal]

Summary

Sections 1-2: To be completed by the supervisor

Section 3: To be completed by the employee

1. Goals completed since last performance feedback

2. Goals for next period

3. 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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