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The state of healthcare training: Current practices and challenges from your peers

Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, July 9, 2004

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We recently surveyed 34 of the nation's biggest multifacility healthcare systems to discover how educators train their staff. Interviews were conducted by telephone with training and education directors. The results revealed a variety of decision makers, processes, initiatives, and methods across the continuum. From the simple to the more complex, they have shared enlightening information about current practices that work well at their facilities and training systems that meet some, but not all, of their needs. They imparted details of their system's infrastructures and the daily challenges they face when adapting various methods of staff training.

The study revealed that many trainers we contacted are either interested in online learning, (supported by tracking software known as a learning management system [LMS]) or currently have a system in place. Online systems are six months to five years away for some facilities, but those who have found appeal in their online training-research findings are moving in this direction. Hospitals that already use online learning apply it in a myriad of ways. Some use it as a stand-alone, meaning 100% of training is online. Others use it in combination with one or more methods, such as classroom and paper-driven techniques, or self-developed, computer-based modules on an organization's intranet.

Editor's note: The above excerpt is from the new special report, "The state of healthcare training: Current practices and challenges from your peers", an HCPro Inc., publication. Turn to next week's issue of HCTW for another sneak peak at this report and for information on how to obtain your copy.

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