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Two best practices for nursing education

Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, May 6, 2004

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Educators: Do your directors and managers need some creative assistance motivating and educating staff on their nursing units? Here are two practices implemented at The Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas to increase efficiency and promote professional development among nursing staff.

1. Enhance the skill mix. Train nursing assistants (NAs) to draw blood, discontinue foleys and saline-locks, and promote wound dressing changes. Free up your nurses to perform tasks that NAs are prohibited from doing by law. 

2. Develop individual work plans for each team member. These goals can range from creating an NA course, to improving communication skills with team members, to attending a conflict resolution class. The plans can be vastly diverse, but they all work toward personal growth.

Editor's note: The above excerpt is adapted from material presented by Jeanne Bauer, RN, MSN, at the American Organization of Nursing Executives (AONE) April 2004 Annual Meeting and Exposition, in Phoenix, Arizona. Bauer is the Director of the observation/acute care unit for surgical patients at The Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas.

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