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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator) HCPro's Advisor to the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program® Strategies for Nurse Managers

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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator)

Issue 3, March 1, 2005 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Stop setting up new managers to fail

  Getting new managers to stay in their positions is challenging. Many leave because they feel...

• Use diversity training to stop discrimination in your facility

  Dr. Stevens treats both Mr. Smith, a white patient, and Mr. Williams, an African-American patient...

Issue 10, October 1, 2005 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Stomp out horizontal hostility

  Teaching managers and staff about toxic personalities It can be the unit secretary, a nurse...

• CC skills days to the rescue

  Targeted training for ED and ICU staff If you’re racking your brain to come up with a new...

Issue 9, September 1, 2005 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Train staff to prevent outpatient falls

  The JCAHO’s National Patient Safety Goal on preventing falls applies to both outpatient and...

Issue 8, August 1, 2005 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Formalized NPR, a growing trend

  Now that Texas requires its healthcare facilities to have formal nursing peer review (NPR...

• 'Just in time' inservice education

  A newly admitted patient requires the use of an intravenous pump never seen by the majority of the...

Issue 7, July 1, 2005 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• The seven rules to e-learning success

  E-learning can be just as or more effective than traditional instruction if staff educators make a...

• Communication 101

  The educator’s role in patient safety Everyone knows patient safety is your...

• JCAHO announces 2006 patient safety goals

  ’Hand-offs’ and med labeling to be required Hospitals have two new National Patient...

Issue 6, June 1, 2005 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• The blitz season

  Make centralized nursing competencies work for you How do you assess the competencies of 500...

• Cross borders with communication

  Prepare managers, staff for the arrival of int’l. nurses Ask your nurses to try on these...

Issue 5, May 1, 2005 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Open staff's eyes to suicide

  Use training to assess and prevent patient suicide If a patient came into your emergency...

• Take baby steps in the ED

  Train ED staff on new IT in stages If you are currently charged with the difficult of task of...

Issue 4, April 1, 2005 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Beef up orientation with modules

  Nursing is the backbone of hospitals, and without it organizations would be paralyzed. So it's...

• Using robotics in the OR

  As technology sweeps through the nation's operating rooms (OR), nurses must learn the new skills...

Issue 2, February 1, 2005 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Nurture your preceptors with exceptional training

  With 12 years of staff development under her belt, Susan Boyer, MEd, RN, director of the Vermont...

• Be the next survey survivor with 'Survivor Hospital'

  Wish you could gain immunity from your next JCAHO survey? So do the folks at Youville Hospital...

Issue 1, January 1, 2005 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Vote yes to nursing PRCs

  Not unlike the peer review processes for physicians, peer review for nurses is prone to manmade...

• Train efficiently with e-learning

  E-mail, e-cards, e-magazines- what's next? E-learning. Online education, or e-learning, is making...

Issue 12, December 1, 2005 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Grant writing tips for staff educators

  Imagine you have just thought up an innovative program, which you are certain will put you and your...

• Improve manager-educator relations

  Educate managers about staff development You have probably been called on by a manager at least...

Issue 11, November 1, 2005 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Make time to talk to patients

  Build relationships to improve outcomes Relationship & Results Oriented Healthcare (RROHC) is a...

• Lift retention rates with CRM

  Communication is the key If the aviation industry allowed for a 5% error rate to occur, 137...