A Practical Guide to Staff Development: Tools and techniques for Effective Education is a comprehensive book and CD-ROM designed to help directors of education, staff development, and human resource personnel prepare clinicians--who are traditionally not educators--to be effective trainers. The CD-ROM includes tools that your new trainers can use to document and assess their training methods, as well as plan activities based on the different learning styles of their audiences. In addition, A Practical Guide to Staff Development can be used by every discipline in your facility with samples of missions, goals, and visions that they can modify to suit their educational needs. You need a resource that will help prepare the novice staff educators in your facility, as well as revitalize current educators with strategies for adopting new technology and teaching techniques. By sharing the innovative ideas in A Practical Guide to Staff Development, you will improve your entire facility's ability to deliver all types of critical education, enhancing your staff's ability to provide exceptional care.

A Practical Guide to Staff Development: Tools and Techniques for Effective Education

Medical Books

Adrianne E. Avillion

Administration & Medicine Economics

HCPro, Inc.

Competency Management for the Intensive Care Unit is a complete competency program created specifically for assessing, validating, and documenting the skills of your ICU nurses. This resource has everything you need to meet and exceed the competency requirements of The Joint Commission and other regulatory bodies. Within its pages, you'll also find many helpful tips and strategies for effectively assessing and evaluating the training needs of your staff. Competency Management for the Intensive Care Unit is jam-packed with expert advice to help you schedule and organize competency assessment, understand Joint Commission expectations, develop your competency assessment program, recognize the differences between mandatory annual training and competency validation, maintain a consistent validation system, and keep up with new competencies

Competency Management for the Intensive Care Unit (Competency Management)

Barbara A. Brunt

Gwen A. Valois

Jane G. Alberico

Nursing

Designing Nursing Orientation gives you all the tools needed to design an evidence-based orientation program. In fact, you'll get everything you need to streamline the orientation process and make it work successfully for your organization. Whether you re looking to create a brand-new program or revamp an existing one, Designing Nursing Orientation will help staff educators to design the most effective program for any institution. Learn how to use evidence to evaluate cost efficiency and return on investment, justify change, and evaluate your program s effectiveness. Rather than focusing on just one area of care, Designing Nursing Orientation empowers educators from all types of facilities to determine the effectiveness of their orientation model and the steps needed to refine it. Designing Nursing Orientation comes with a CD-ROM full of ready-to-use tools and checklists to guide you through the design and implementation of a cost-efficient program that will meet all your needs. With these tools at your finger tips, you'll begin applying the concepts in the book immediately.

Designing Nursing Orientation: Evidence-Based Strategies for Effective Programs

HCPro

Nursing Orientation from A to Z: Develop a dynamic new-hire program at your facility
Build an orientation program that meets the needs of your entire nursing staff
This binder and CD-ROM walk you through each step of a well-run orientation program so you can incorporate field-tested, evidence-based practices at your facility. Use this resource to evaluate your program outcomes, fulfill Joint Commission orientation requirements, train new graduates, and meet the needs of a diverse workforce.
This comprehensive resource provides you with:
- A step-by-step description of a well-run orientation program that complies with Joint Commission requirements - Best practices for designing individualized, competency-based, new-hire orientation programs - Training materials for new graduates, experienced nurses, and nurses who were educated overseas - A CD-ROM that contains more than 60 customizable forms and tools
Table of Contents
Section 1: Pre-orientation Chapter 1: Applicant Pool for New Employees Chapter 2: Pre-hire Activities
Section 2: General Orientation Chapter 3: Organizing General Orientation Chapter 4: Mandatory Classes
Section 3: Departmental Orientation Chapter 5: Individualizing Orientation Chapter 6: Competency-Based Orientation Chapter 7: Teaching Critical Thinking and Priority Setting Chapter 8: Developing Leadership Chapter 9: Reviewing Communication Skills During Orientation Chapter 10: Ethical Dilemmas and Legal Considerations as Part of the Orientation Process Chapter 11: Discussing Culture and Diversity Chapter 12: Supporting New Graduate Nurses Chapter 13: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Orientation: Satisfaction, Analysis, and the Influence of Four Generations
Section 4: Developing a Preceptor Program Chapter 14: Precepting Chapter 15: Mentoring
Section 5: Orientation of staff development specialists Chapter 16: Using Staff Development Competencies Chapter 17: Orientation of Staff Development Specialists Chapter 18: Orientation for Staff Development Specialists: Selecting Candidates and Classifying Levels of Expertise

Nursing Orientation Program Builder: Tools for a Successful New Hire Program

Debbie Buchwach

Reference

Owning your own small business is one of the most exhilarating, frightening, stimulating, exhausting, and ultimately rewarding challenges you'll ever undertake. Nurse Entrepreneurship: The Art of Running Your Own Business is designed specifically for nurses who are considering "taking the plunge" into entrepreneurship. Packed with practical tools, including: Success Strategies to put you on the right path; Red Alerts! to help you avoid serious mistakes; Overviews of several business concepts; Steps to Take when business is slow and Additional Resources including web sites, books and professional organizations. 
 Nurse Entrepreneurship will help you set your own standards, provide quality service, and examine what it really takes to create a successful business.

Nurse Entrepreneurship: The Art of Running Your Own Business

Business & Money

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

Creative Health Care Management

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