Read the statements from the Joint Commission on nursing-sensitive care performance measurements and understand that a set of performance measures are usually focused in one area of practice such as diabetes or cardiac care. Essentially, performance measures are meant to measure the quality of care given by the nurse or nurses.
Review the classroom, lab and hospital assignments for nursing students. Develop an initial set of performance measures based on patient-centered outcomes, nursing-centered intervention measures and system-centered performance measures that have a direct correlation with what is student nurses are studying.
Design a data-collection process to evaluate student-performance measures as that data will ultimately enhance the student nurse's experience and the quality of the nursing-education program and patient care. This can include patient satisfaction surveys, peer review by other nursing students and input from proctors who are professional nurses assigned to oversee the work of the student nurses.
Introduce the student-performance measures to the nursing students by explaining the initial set of performance measures and their impact on quality.
Review with the nursing students the data-collection process and how that data reflects their performance, the nursing program and the care they give the patients. The collection of this data enhances the knowledge of the nursing students and can improve the nursing-education program as well.
Set a date to implement the student performance measures and data-collection process and make sure that the nursing staff and the faculty are aware of the date.
Create within the teaching facility a collaborative quality-control group that reports to the chief nursing officer or a nursing care committee. The quality-control group would be responsible for reviewing data collected as a result of implementation of the student-performance measures. The quality-control group should also include nursing student representatives as well as any stakeholders such as nurse managers, department heads or proctors.