Use this sample and step by step explanation for setting meaningful and inspiring employee performance goals for an icu staff nurse.

An ICU Staff Nurse is tasked with the primary role of providing first care to patients with life-threatening medical conditions such as invasive surgery, road accidents, and organ failures. He or she will perform careful assessment and monitoring of patients? progress for any changes and offer correct solutions when need be. He or she will also get to offer personal care to the patients from time to time.

Other duties that he or she can perform are; treating wounds and injuries, observing and recording all vital signs and symptoms of the patients, ensuring that all critical lifesaving machines are working properly, performing diagnostic tests, administering medications to the patients and assisting the doctor to perform certain medical 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

NEGOTIATION SKILLS:

Strive to articulate my ideas and opinions in a clear and non-confrontational manner.

Practice active listening during the negotiation process to understand what the other party is trying to put across.

[employee comments goal]
TEAMWORK SKILLS:

Learn to appreciate what other group members have put in.

To make my voice be heard on the team so that I can actively participate in the decision-making process.

[employee comments goal]
MULTI-TASKING:

Classify tasks according to importance and urgency in order to get an idea of what can wait and what needs to be done immediately

Give each task a specific deadline or short amount of time in order to remain focused

[employee comments goal]
DELEGATION:

Make sure the person assigned the task knows in advance both the positive and negative consequences of excellent and poor performances

Point the person to the resources he/she may need or people they may need to coordinate with in order to complete the task

[employee comments goal]
PERSONAL DRIVE:

Help employees and team members meet their goals and suggest ways to make them more valuable to the company

Actively seek new opportunities to improve oneself and the company and seize them when they occur

[employee comments goal]
PERSUADING OTHERS:

Get to know where a person wants to be in the future and how badly he/she needs to get there in order to know how much effort is needed in persuading

Give an example of a context where own ideas have been used successfully in order to convince others to support the ideas

[employee comments goal]
ROLE AWARENESS:

Establish regular meetings with own bosses in order to discuss how own position or department can be improved

Volunteer to train new and underperforming employees and in resolving problems that contribute to underperformance

[employee comments goal]
USING COMMON SENSE:

Take the time to examine a new problem in order to come up with the best solution and avoid making mistakes

Take the time to learn and understand others before one decides what one thinks about someone

[employee comments goal]
QUALITY OF WORK:

Recognize and reward team members for producing quality work in order to make them feel appreciated and encouraged to continue delivering quality results and increasing their productivity

Allow enough time for tasks or projects in order to avoid feeling overloaded and increasing chances of errors

[employee comments goal]
PRODUCT KNOWLEDGE:

Shows little willingness to understand industry trends, terminologies, and concepts surrounding a product

Put enough effort to know the procedures and policies that guide products and services

[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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