As a manger of two busy nursing units, I am often challenged to facilitate the continuing education of my staff members. As with any profession, continuing education is vital. Nurses need to know how to operate new equipment, document new assessments, and even broaden their scope of practice. Facilitating those who are interested in continuing their education is a challenge from several vantages. There are staffing issues, who can I find to replace the person when they are off? There are financial obstacles, who will pay for the education session? For those who are interested and driven to attend, these issues are not barriers. However, for those who are not as motivated as others, these can be huge.
How can an organization facilitate learning in a busy workplace?
In my organization, the Department of Organizational Learning has put in place a comprehensive e-learning database. This database covers a variety of learning requirements. This allows staff to access educational sessions through the use of power-point on any computer in the building as it is available through our intranet. Examples of topics covered are; hand washing, our emergency fire and disater response plan, proper body mechanics when moving patients, as well as a variety of advanced nursing competencies (theory portion). This has proven to be highly successful for those educational sessions that can be delivered in this format. The challenge is that not every topic can be covered in this manner.
What else can we do then?
In an effort to ensure important educational information is communicated, our organization uses learning lunches as a format to offer educational sessions to staff members. This allows staff to participate in vital educational session while in the workplace. This includes new equipement updates, and educational sessions on infectious diseases, to name a few. By using these two ideas we can capture our audiance while they are at work, thus decreasing the requirement of adding another obligation to those while juggling home and work life.
How can an organization facilitate learning in a busy workplace?
In my organization, the Department of Organizational Learning has put in place a comprehensive e-learning database. This database covers a variety of learning requirements. This allows staff to access educational sessions through the use of power-point on any computer in the building as it is available through our intranet. Examples of topics covered are; hand washing, our emergency fire and disater response plan, proper body mechanics when moving patients, as well as a variety of advanced nursing competencies (theory portion). This has proven to be highly successful for those educational sessions that can be delivered in this format. The challenge is that not every topic can be covered in this manner.
What else can we do then?
In an effort to ensure important educational information is communicated, our organization uses learning lunches as a format to offer educational sessions to staff members. This allows staff to participate in vital educational session while in the workplace. This includes new equipement updates, and educational sessions on infectious diseases, to name a few. By using these two ideas we can capture our audiance while they are at work, thus decreasing the requirement of adding another obligation to those while juggling home and work life.
2 comments:
Good Work Amanada!
Amanda so bee-u-T-ful!
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