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Continuing education can help your employees grow

Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, December 8, 2006

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Continuing education is generally defined as learning activities designed to enhance an employee's professional growth and development. These programs, like all learning activities, are ultimately expected to contribute to improvement of job performance and customer satisfaction.

Specific continuing education programs are often identified by learners as educational needs. However, if they are not directly connected to training mandates, competency, or other requirements, it is doubtful that large numbers of learners will be able to leave their work to attend. Every staff-development specialist has spent long hours developing excellent programs only to find few, if any, learners in the classroom. Enthusiastic administrative and management backing is usually the most effective way to improve attendance. But what can you do to improve attendance at your continuing education programs? Here are some ideas:

• Enthusiastic advance publicity
• Give the learners an added incentive
• Encourage word-of-mouth publicity
• Offer credits

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 in our library, go to http://www.hcprofessor.com/.

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