Tips from BESD: Mandatory madness: Transforming training from a burden to a pleasure
Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, November 5, 2010
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by Jo-Ann C. Byrne, RN, BS, MHSA
It's that dreaded time of year again. All staff members must complete annual mandatory education, and once again, you're struggling to figure out how to reach all of them in a prescribed period of time. You have to provide education regarding corporate responsibility, hazardous waste, infection control, The Joint Commission, the organization's mission, risk management, and safety. This information must be reviewed annually and can become repetitive and tedious. The question to be addressed is: How can you make annual mandatory training meaningful and fun?
How many of you are still holding those "24-hour for three days" open sessions hoping everyone will show up? Maybe you've switched to a unit-/department-based method where managers, or their designees, are responsible for catching everyone over a period of days and making them take the "test." How's that working for you?
Editor's note: Subscribers to Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development can read the rest of this article in the November 2010 issue.
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