Program Director, Mayo Clinic School of Health Sciences Nurse Practitioner Program; Family Nurse Practitioner at Mayo Clinic specializing in outpatient office-based procedures, women’s health and obesity management.
Attending the #NONPF NP Educators 50th Conference this week. I attended a wonderful workshop session on #Competency based evaluation this morning. We workshopped applying the new AACN Essentials to our NONPF #NP Core Competencies using #Backward Design. Thrilled to see our profession moving toward outcomes that matter, as opposed to simply looking at indirect (cognitive) assessment and clinical hours alone. Backward design is an approach to curriculum design that starts with the standards and desired learning outcomes, and then scaffolds backward to design learning activities and assessments. Direct emphasis will have an increasingly important role - evaluation through behavioral outcomes. Simply memorizing facts to demonstrate knowledge is not enough. The old adage of "knowledge is power" is not true - APPLIED knowledge is what matters. While our profession's competencies have been newly revised, this philosophy is not necessarily new; many educators are aware of "#Miller's Pyramid." We just re-visited this with our team as it applies to NP student evaluation. What's old is new again! And with a more modern twist: how can #AI be used to help develop/revise our old objectives/competencies to make them observable and measurable? I was amazed at the results I had when putting existing course/activity objectives into #ChatGPT, and asking for feedback and recommendations to make the objectives observable and measurable. Also interesting, how the results varied among our table participants. How are you using #AI in your clinical or education profession?
