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When attendance is mandatory

Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, January 3, 2008

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All organizations mandate particular education components for employees. These types of required learning activities are usually conducted on a regular (i.e., annual) schedule. Mandatory programs include those dealing with safety issues, infection control, violence in the workplace, and so on. Here are tips for conducting mandatory training:

• Organize attendance. Many organizations have arranged mandatory learning activities on a monthly basis. If you do this, make sure your orientation program coincides with the day(s) that mandatory training is being offered. Arranging a particular day(s) each month allows employees and orientees alike to fulfill mandatory requirements.
• Blend it together. Your mandatory classes are probably a blend of classroom, demonstration, and self-learning methods (including e-learning). Set up a classroom and arrange for didactic components and skills demonstrations to be offered at regular intervals throughout the day. Have a number of computers and other self-learning tools (e.g., video, DVD players) available, too.
• Incorporate competencies into your mandatory training events. This enables objective measurement and documentation of skill or knowledge accomplishment, not just that employees attended particular programs. Whenever possible, use a computerized system to track education attendance.

Editor's note: The above excerpt is from the online course "Nursing CE Series: Successful Strategies for Training Your Nursing Staff." For more information on this and other courses, visit www.hcprofessor.com.  

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