how many of you work in hospitals where they have institued (or have always done) peer evaluations as a part of your annual evaluation?
personally, having just gone through my annual evaluation, it is painfully obvious to me that the "peer evaluation tool" is nothing more than a personality contest. the thought that a personality conflict can affect my job security or my percentage of raise raises my hackles more than a little bit.
do many of you have this "tool" in use in your hospitals, and if so, do you find them to be similar to what i describe? or are they instead, valuable tools of reliable information from your peers?
thank you for your input.
eta: i just wanted to mention that the peer evals are handed out to both rn's and techs. so the techs are evaluating our performance as rn's, and whether or not we meet "competency" or not.. ?? weird.