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Inside best practice: Skills and scenario-based training

HCPro's Weekly Update on the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®*, January 18, 2010

All new hires, whether experienced nurses or new graduates, first go to their own facilities to receive facility-specific orientation. After that, they come to the simulation medical center, where they participate in skills training and scenario-based training.

The experienced nurses go through short scenarios, but the new nurses get to experience four-hour scenarios that are set in the department in which they will work. For example, if they will be working in the ICU, new nurses have a one- to two-patient ratio just like they will have in reality. The four-hour scenarios involve all aspects of unit life that they will experience. The new nurses:

• Learn how to do patient handoffs
• Practice patient assessments
• Pass medications
• Contact physicians or ancillary services for things their patients need or orders state
• Enter their documentation in the computerized medical record

Source: This excerpt is from the January issue of HCPro’s Advisor to the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®. Don’t have a subscription? Take a look at the benefits of becoming a member of HCPro’s Resource Center for the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®.

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