<p> SELF-ASSESSMENT TOOL – CLINICAL PRACTICE</p><p>Pillar of Practice Self-Assessment Questions Amber Red</p><p>How effective are you?</p><p>Clinical Practice Promoting person centredness?</p><p>Do you:</p><p>• seek out and act on formal and informal feedback from your patients and their carers on their experience?</p><p>• ensure that people are involved in making decisions about their care?</p><p>• support and enable people to manage their own health?</p><p>• appropriately involve the person's family, friends, and social network?</p><p>• provide care which is respectful of individual values, preferences and needs?</p><p>1 Pillar of Practice Self-Assessment Questions Amber Red</p><p>How effective are you? Clinical Practice Promoting patient safety?</p><p>Do you: • know and understand the content and purpose of the Scottish Patient Safety Programme? </p><p>• disseminate patient safety information within your clinical area?</p><p>• implement and evaluate appropriate patient safety initiatives within your clinical area?</p><p>• implement strategies to prevent hospital acquired infections within your area of clinical practice?</p><p>Clinical Practice Making clinical decisions?</p><p>Do you:</p><p>• base your clinical decisions on appropriate evidence and guidelines?</p><p>• have the skills or knowledge to justify your decisions to other people?</p><p>2 SELF-ASSESSMENT TOOL – EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE</p><p>Pillar of Practice Self-Assessment Questions Amber Red</p><p>How effective are you?</p><p>Evidence-based Accessing the evidence base for your professional Practice practice?</p><p>Do you:</p><p>• know the range of evidence that is available relevant to your practice, for example, research, national guidelines, patient surveys, audit and quality indicators?</p><p>• know how to access evidence that is available in your clinical area?</p><p>• know how to access evidence from library and online sources?</p><p>• know how to evaluate the usefulness of the evidence that you have accessed? 3 Pillar of Practice Self-Assessment Questions Amber Red</p><p>How effective are you? Evidence-based Using evidence in your practice? Practice Do you:</p><p>• know what the national healthcare priorities are?</p><p>• base your practice on relevant and best available evidence?</p><p>• use data to improve the quality of care you provide?</p><p>Evidence-based Generating evidence to inform your practice? Practice Do you: • regularly reflect on the care you provide and on whether it has a sound evidence base?</p><p>• regularly reflect on the care provided by other healthcare professionals in your area of clinical practice and on whether it has a sound evidence base?</p><p>• know what to do if/when you identify an area of practice that requires a stronger evidence base?</p><p>4 SELF-ASSESSMENT TOOL – LEARNING, TEACHING AND SUPERVISION</p><p>Pillar of Practice Self-Assessment Questions Amber Red</p><p>How effective are you?</p><p>Learning, Teaching Promoting learning within your clinical area? and Supervision Do you:</p><p>• take responsibility for your own learning?</p><p>• recognise and respond to the different learning needs of other members of the multidisciplinary team?</p><p>• recognise and respond to opportunities for learning?</p><p>• provide support for other team members as they learn?</p><p>Teaching within your clinical area? Learning, Teaching Do you: and Supervision • provide informal teaching within your clinical area?</p><p>• provide formal teaching sessions within your clinical area?</p><p>• take opportunities to enhance your teaching skills when they arise?</p><p>5 Pillar of Practice Self-Assessment Questions Amber Red</p><p>How effective are you? Learning, Teaching Supervising others? and Supervision Do you: • undertake appropriate support and supervision of other members of the multidisciplinary team?</p><p>• use support and supervision sessions as a means of promoting learning?</p><p>• accurately document supervisory activities?</p><p>SELF-ASSESSMENT TOOL – LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT</p><p>Pillar of Practice Self-Assessment Questions Amber Red</p><p>6 How effective are you?</p><p>Leadership and Demonstrating leadership behaviours? Management Do you: • take responsibility for improving care and service delivery?</p><p>• instigate and lead changes and innovations within your clinical area?</p><p>• inspire and motivate other people to work towards service excellence?</p><p>• take responsibility for developing yourself and others?</p><p>• act with integrity and take accountability for performance?</p><p>• communicate effectively, engaging with others in decision making? </p><p>Pillar of Practice Self-Assessment Questions Amber Red</p><p>How effective are you? Leadership and Management Providing management within your clinical area?</p><p>Do you: • effectively manage yourself and other members of the </p><p>7 multidisciplinary team?</p><p>• effectively organise and deliver care within your sphere of professional responsibility?</p><p>• manage financial and budgetary issues within your sphere of professional responsibility?</p><p>• Manage small scale projects from instigation to completion?</p><p>8</p>