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Background: Performance evaluation is a continuous process. In nursing, clinical performance encompasses more than just cognitive skills; it also requires skills from affective and psychomotor domains. The aim of this study was to evaluate the staff performance that had been trained within an environment of "everything is new to everyone." Methods: A comparative descriptive study was conducted on 113 nurse graduates with 33 head nurses as first evaluator, and seven nurse managers as second evaluator. The instrument used is consisted of 33 items with six domains of performance: punctuality, physical appearance, attitude and commitment to work, service excellence, positive relationship & communication skills, and leadership skills; together with three sets of open-ended structured questions. Results: Eighty six (76.10%) graduates were rated as "excellent" and 20 (17.69%) were rated as "very good". Thus, 106 (93.8%) of the nurse graduates had performed well if the two groups "excellent" and " very good" were to be put together as one. Conclusion: The performance evaluations by both evaluators were found to be consistent meanwhile personal qualities such as wisdom and reflection were found to be important in determining an erratic staff performance evaluation

Creativity is essential in daily decision making and problem solving. It is mainly indicated by divergent thinking tests. Previous studies have revealed the associated brain regions with divergent thinking tasks, but the segregation of functionally specialized cortices to different aspects of divergent thinking has not been explicitly addressed. Thus, this study used a set of functional magnetic resonance imaging paradigms to examine the specific brain regions involved in the aspects of flexibility and originality during alternative use tasks, which mainly indicates divergent thinking skill. Fifty participants were purposely recruited and randomly assigned to 2 groups: the control and experimental groups. The experimental participants underwent creativity stimulation training, whereas the controls were void of it. Subsequently, the participants underwent 3 sessions of functional magnetic resonance imaging screening, in which they need to mentally generate basic, alternative, and novel use for everyday objects that were visually presented. All tasks revealed activations in left motor cortices and inferior and superior parietal lobules, and right inferior temporal gyrus, caudate nucleus, frontal gyri, postcentral gyrus, and insula. Differential responses of alternative use generation to basic use retrieval revealed activations in bilateral superior frontal gyrus and caudate nucleus and left insula (p FWE Ͻ .05). Differential responses of generation of novel use to alternative use revealed bilateral supramarginal gyrus, left angular gyrus, inferior frontal gyrus, and right precentral gyrus activation. These findings suggested a different set of cortical region to integrate the cognitive processes This article was published Online First March 14, 2019.