Solutions

Solutions powered by
Learn More.
Frame 586 (1)

Quality Manager formerly known as abaqis®

Mitigate risk and elevate your quality of care. Improving both clinical and business outcomes starts with a smarter, more integrated approach to regulatory training, continuing education and quality management.

Learn More

NEW TO THE STORE

hStream Content Marketplace

Connecting you to the Best Content. Access to 75 Partners and 35,000+ Courses in our Industry-Leading Marketplace. Streamline content purchasing, updates, hosting and connectivity for your organizational needs.

NurseGrid Learn

Online store for Clinical Learners. Individual CE Credit and industry products for Clinical Learners are now available through NurseGrid Learn (Beta). Explore our robust collection of courses that provides an unparalleled level of flexibility and choice.

Practitioner Courses

Meet the DEA's new requirement under the Medication Access and Training Expansion (MATE) Act in an online, high-quality and self-paced 8-hour DEA MATE Act course specifically designed for practitioners, including Physicians, PAs, NPs, Pharmacists, Dentists and others.

LATEST & POPULAR

BLOG

Join Us at Thrive24: The Ultimate HealthStream Credentialing User Group Conference!
BLOG

Gen Z Enters the Workforce: How Healthcare Can Adapt Training Programs for the Next Generation
BLOG

Telehealth: From Pandemic Tool to Preferred Option
On-Demand Webinar

State of the Industry: What’s Next for Healthcare Quality & Safety in 2024?
CUSTOMER STORY

Quantifiable results highlight switch to jane®
ARTICLE

10 Trends for 2024: Absorbing New Technology, Facing New Realities, and Solving Old Problems

< HealthStream Resources

Article—Using Artificial Intelligence to Assess Critical Thinking for Healthcare

April 1, 2021
April 1, 2021

Assessing clinical competency is essential for knowing whether healthcare staff members are able to provide care that leads to positive outcomes. In our article excerpted here, “Using Artificial Intelligence to Assess Critical Thinking for Healthcare,” HealthStream’s Joe Caracci, MBA, BSN, RN; AVP, Clinical Assessments writes about technology-based tools that go further to help healthcare organizations ensure clinicians are prepared to provide great care.

Competence Determines Care Success

The most important contributor to nurses’ success in achieving better outcomes in healthcare has to be their competence as members of the clinical workforce. What is competency? An easily understood definition is “the ability of a provider to administer safe and reliable care on a consistent basis” (Miller-Keane Encyclopedia, 2003). At the heart of our Clinical Development System is competency development. We say that our solution works “from hire to retire”— it assesses new nurses and provides personalized development plans based on their strengths and opportunities, as well as comparisons to national benchmarks. It also determines what an individual needs from orientation, to specialty transitions and annual maintenance of competence through a clinician’s 35 year career. For example, during my nursing tenure, I went from pediatric oncology to adult critical care. When the focus of my work changed from caring for children to critically ill adults, there was much I needed to understand about the critically ill adult that was very different from the pediatric oncology that had been my specialty.

The Components of Competency

To understand the role artificial intelligence (AI) can contribute to achieving competency, you first have to know what creates this valuable attribute. The four components of competency are knowledge, skills, attitude/behavioral fit, and critical thinking/clinical judgment. Measuring and improving the first three of these components does not require the use of AI. Rather, HealthStream has incorporated powerful assessments that measure knowledge, skills, and attitude, and we have created a broad taxonomy that links our learning and training to individual staff deficits that are identified through the assessment process. How do we assess these three areas of clinical practice before we turn to measuring critical thinking?

The article includes:

  • Assessing the Components of Clinical Competence
  • Healthcare Emergencies Don’t Come with Multiple Choice Questions
  • Using AI to Better Measure Clinical Judgment

Download the article here.