ASSESSMENT OF LEARNING OUTCOMES

Below is a sample Assessment of Learning Outcomes (ALO) based from the Daily Learning
Activities (Day1)

Subject: Elective1 (Holistic Care across Life Span)

Course & Year Level: BSN- 2nd Year

ILO1. Define quality, quality care and standard. (Summative

Assessment)

Which of the following statements BEST define the term Quality Health Care?
a. Conformance to requirements and standards
b. It is the complete satisfaction of the needs in health services
c. It is an optimal balance between possibilities realized and a framework of norms
and values
d. Both A & B
e. All of the above

Which of the following statements describes an observance to the standard of

care?
a. A health care provider adheres to the standard of care if he has done how similarly
qualified practitioners would have managed the patient's care under the same or similar
circumstances.
b. A practitioner adheres to the standard of care if he consistently follows the guidelines
and protocols that experts would agree with as most appropriate.
A nurse is being known of his best practice in rendering quality health care at all
times.
d. All of the above
c.

ILO2. Recognize the importance of Quality Health Care in the

promotion of health and alleviation of sufferings. (Summative
Assessment)
ESSAY QUESTION:

As a future health care provider, how important is quality health care in the
promotion of health and in alleviation of sufferings?

ILO3. Analyze each dimension and cross dimensional issues of

quality health care. (Summative Assessment)
MATCHING TYPE
Instruction: Match the descriptions in Column A with the dimensions or issues of quality health
care in column B.
Column A
1. Patients do not receive care that cannot help them and/or
where the risks of care outweigh the benefits, and that patients
reliably receive care where the known benefits outweigh the

Column B
a)
b)
c)
d)

Reliable Care
Equitable Care
Efficient Care
Timely Care

risks.
2. Being responsive to individual patient preferences, needs,
and values.
3. Healthcare system uses its resources to get the best value
for the money spent.
4. Healthcare provider treat all individuals fairly and deliver
high-quality care regardless of personal characteristics
5. Patients will consistently receive the same standard of care
regardless of when, where, and from whom they receive care.
6. An approach to medical practice intended to optimize
decision-making by emphasizing the use of evidence from well
designed and conducted research.
7. To avoid injury to patients from the care that is intended to
help them
8. Health care provider reduces waits and harmful delays in
rendering services to patients.
9. Refers to the extent to which an individual episode of care is
coordinated and integrated into overall care provision.
10.Improving accuracy, appropriateness, completeness and
analysis of health care data if judgments about clinical quality
are to be made.
Answers:
1. E 2.F 3. C
4. B 5. A 6. J 7. I 8. D 9. G 10.K

e)
f)
g)
h)
i)
j)
k)

Effective Care
Patient-centere
Continuity of C
Quality Improv
Safety Care
Evidence-based
Information Ma

The person-to person encounter that conveys a sense of caring and closeness is
best described as:
A. Trust
B. Rapport
C. Empathy
D. Presence

When determining the priority needs of a client, which of the following should the
nurse consider as the highest priority?
a. Providing a safe environment
b. Preservation of life
c. Ensuring growth and development
d. Minimizing environmental stimulation

When providing holistic care to the patient, the nurse focuses on the client and tries
to avoid assumption. This process referred to as:
a. Developing relationship
b. Knowing the patient
c. Creating a therapeutic environment
d. Sharing personal stories

To enable the nurse to build a helping and caring relationship, which of the following
should be established first?
a. Trust and sympathy
b. Trust and empathy
c. Trust and rapport
d. Trust and friendship

In giving safe and reliable care to patients, which of the following situations does
not constitute malpractice?
a. The nurse administers an antibiotic without prior assessment of the patients
sensitivity to the drug.
b. The nurse applies a heating pad on the abdomen of a patient with appendicitis.
c. The nurse did not perform CPR on a client with terminal illness whose
advance directives specifies no resuscitation measures once breathing
stops.
d. None of the above
Answer: C

In providing efficient care to patient, the nurse should be equipped with the
knowledge of basic nursing procedures. Which of the following is considered the first
level of isolation precautions?
a. Standard precautions
b. Airborne precautions
c. Contact precautions
d. Droplet precautions

Effective care of clients condition requires critical thinking. Which of the following
situations reflects the basic level of critical thinking?
a. Asking for the physicians opinion in every intervention performed on a client.
b. Entering into a win-win situation all the time.
c. Using the institutions manual to confirm the correct procedure.
d. Using ones influence and position to achieve ones goal

In giving patient-centered care, which of the following belief is most important in

establishing a positive nurse-patient relationship?
a. The nurse must recognize that the client is a holistic being whose personality
needs to be fully understood.
b. The nurse accepts the client as a unique human being whose ability to
trust is preceded by testing behaviors.
c. The quality of the nurse-patient relationship depends on the nurses degree of
self-awareness.
d. The nurse should view the clients behavior non-judgmentally while assisting the
client to act out feelings of aggression.

ILO4. Demonstrate patient-centered care by means of role playing

or simulation.
Direction: Please note that in the above objective, the students will be assessed in the
laboratory setting. Ideal ratio of the assessor (clinical instructor) to the students would be one is
to twelve. Have the students choose their partner for the said performance assessment, one will
portray as the nurse and the other one will act as the patient. Second year nursing students will
be asked to perform basic nursing procedure in giving patient-centered care to
immunosuppressed patient (eg. cancer patients) before they will be exposed in the clinical and
hospital settings. In grading the performance, rubrics will be provided.