Outcomes of clinical teaching include knowledge, skills, and attitudes that are acquired through clinical teaching and learning. Current nursing education program accreditation criteria focus on evidence that meaningful outcomes of learning have been produced. The effectiveness of clinical teaching can be judged on the extent to which it produces intended learning outcomes
I agree also a great question. How can clinical nurse educators prove their worth?
I think that Charlene Chu is suggesting the measuring work performance (in all of its dimensions) to determine an increase. This would be measuring changed behaviour and this confounds a few issues. What leads to changed behaviour? Knowledge and motivation.
For example if a nurse educator delivered an education on how to perform a skill, but the nurses did not value the skill because there was insufficient perceived benefit, then the change in behaviour (measured through performance) is unlikely to be significant.
However, if you simply measured the nurses confidence and self-efficacy in their acquisition of the knowledge learned, then a separate translational study can be conducted as follow up.
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