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My current position as a staff nurse at a magnet hospital requires peer evaluations that are anonymous. Most of my coworkers function as adults but there is a clique that is socially inappropriate at times but mostly out of work and on social media. I stay out of it- do my job, having many responsibilities with my family and terminally ill parent. However on my review this week, a peer stated some upsetting comments such as "negative in attitude everyday" and needs to be more socially communicative to make new hires feel comfortable. This comments were in contrast to others that stated I was tactful and competent with strong communication skills. I feel the undertone of the comments is one that because I don't drink with them I am on the outs and subject to gossip. This unfair comment upsets me and I feel this impacts my evaluation and reputation. Because they are anonymous I cannot address this issue directly. My manager said I can write a comment. What would you write to address this?

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Sorry , I haven't any advice except to say anonymous peer evaluations are the devil!:mad:

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Specializes in ER.

Anonymous peer evals just open the door to malicious remarks and hurt feelings. They are like the internet comments section below the news articles. When people are undercover their dark sides bubble up, and all hell breaks loose.

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They are like the internet comments section below the news articles. When people are undercover their dark sides bubble up, and all hell breaks loose.

And about as valuable.

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Specializes in orthopedic/trauma, Informatics, diabetes.

We just started this. There is a committee of a certain amount that we voted on and they meet and discuss everyone (not sure who evaluates them). The results will be discussed when we do out mid-year evals in Feb. I am very curious as to what will be said. I tend to be a little paranoid. We'll see.

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Specializes in ER.
We just started this. There is a committee of a certain amount that we voted on and they meet and discuss everyone (not sure who evaluates them). The results will be discussed when we do out mid-year evals in Feb. I am very curious as to what will be said. I tend to be a little paranoid. We'll see.

Someone will contribute that you seem "distracted and nervous" and "She doesn't always always reflect the mission statement". "Seems stressed" "Not friendly" "I worry about her critical thinking".

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My current position as a staff nurse at a magnet hospital requires peer evaluations that are anonymous. Most of my coworkers function as adults but there is a clique that is socially inappropriate at times but mostly out of work and on social media. I stay out of it- do my job, having many responsibilities with my family and terminally ill parent. However on my review this week, a peer stated some upsetting comments such as "negative in attitude everyday" and needs to be more socially communicative to make new hires feel comfortable. This comments were in contrast to others that stated I was tactful and competent with strong communication skills. I feel the undertone of the comments is one that because I don't drink with them I am on the outs and subject to gossip. This unfair comment upsets me and I feel this impacts my evaluation and reputation. Because they are anonymous I cannot address this issue directly. My manager said I can write a comment. What would you write to address this?

I don't think I would respond, at all. You'd almost be validating it as legitimate criticism if you did.

I'm glad my employer doesn't utilize peer reviews. Most of us wouldn't say negative things about each other that weren't serious enough to say openly ...but there's always that one passive-aggressive individual who loves sending anonymous emails to the manager about insignificant things.

Hopefully, they're at least keeping track of which employees have a lot of negative things to say about everybody and taking them less seriously.

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Specializes in Med/Surge, Psych, LTC, Home Health.

I wouldn't say anything. I honestly wouldn't even worry about it.

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Specializes in Critical Care, Education.

One of my everlasting pet peeves is the preponderance of subjective evaluations..... Evaluation criteria needs to be more carefully defined so that 'raters' are all using the same standards. Inter-rater reliability is a must in every other type of important rating.... why isn't it applied to performance evaluations? They are supposed to be comparing performance/behavior to a pre-determined standard. This should not be the venue for airing one's opinions. I suppose it is not possible to completely eliminate the 'comments', but they should not be given very much emphasis.

GAAAAHHHH

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Specializes in oncology, MS/tele/stepdown.

We have to do two peer reviews each year, but they are not anonymous, so rarely does anyone say anything critical. Why bother with it?

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