Staff development programme

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1. Staff Development Programme
in Nursing

2. Meaning
Staff development is the process directed
towards the personal & professional growth
of the nurses and other personnel while they
are employed by a health care agency.
Personal and Professional Development
(CPPD) is the new name for the Staff
Development.

3. Definition:
Staff development includes all training and education
undertaken by an employer to improve the
occupational and personal knowledge, skills, and
attitudes of employment.
A process consisting of orientation, in-service
education and continuing education for the people
of promoting the development of personnel within
any employment setting, consistent with the goals
and responsibilities of the employment.( ANA)

4. Needs for staff Development:
social change and scientific advancement
advancement in the field of science like
medical science and technology.
to provide the opportunity for nurses to
continually acquire and implement the
knowledge, skills, attitudes, ideals and
valued essentials for the maintenance of high
quality of nursing care.

5. Need cont……
As part of an individual's long-term career growth.
To add or improve skills needed in the short term
Being necessary to fill gap in the past performance
To change or correct long-held attitudes of
employee
To move ahead or keep up with change.
Fast changing technologies
Need to increase the productivity and quality of the
work.
To motivate employees and to promote employee
loyalty
Fast growing organizations.

6. Goals:
1.Assist each employee (nurse) to improve
performance in his/her position.
2.Assist each employee (nurse) to acquire
personal and professional abilities that
maximize the possibility of career
advancement.

7. Objectives
To increase employee productivity.
To ensure safe and effective patient care by
nurses.
To ensure satisfactory job performance by
personnel.
To orient the personnel to care objectives, job
duties, personnel policies, and agency regulations.

8. Objectives cont…..
To help employees cope with new practice
role.
Help employees cope with new practice role.
Help nurses to close the gap between present
abilities and the scientific basis for nursing
practice that is broadening through research.

9. Function of Staff
Development
Provide Educational activities for all nurses
employed by the health care agency directed
towards change behavior related to role
expectations.
It concerned with growth and development of
personnel from their initial contact with a
healthcare agency until termination of
service

10. Staff development program, health care
organization model
Assessing
Competency

Maintaining



Competency
Developing
competency

11. Steps of staff development program
Assess the educational needs of all staff members
Set priority
Develop general objectives for the staff development program
Determine the resources needed to reach the desired objectives
Develop a master calendar for an entire year
Develop and maintain staff development record system
Establish files on major educational topics
Regularly evaluate the staff development program

12. Resources
Public libraries, audiovisual program in addition
to many books and computers, research activities
and speakers to community groups.
Schools and universities
Association
Health and inter service agency
Other nursing homes
Ones own staff

13. Administrative structure of a staff
development program:
Administrative philosophy, policies &
practices of health care agency.
Policies, practices and standards of nursing & other
health professionals.
Human & material resources
Physical facilities
Financial resources

14. Centralization v/s Decentralization:
Qualification of Staff development

15. Role:
Applies adult learning principles when helping
employees learn new skills or information.
Coaches’ employees readily regarding knowledge
and skill deficits.
Actively seeks out teaching opportunities.
Uses teaching techniques that empower staff.
Is sensitive to the learning deficits of the staff and
creatively minimizes these deficits.
Frequently assess learning needs of the unit.
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16. Types of Staff Development:
Induction Training.
Job Orientation.
In service education
Continuing education
Training for special function

17. TYPES CONT…
Induction Training

18. Need of induction training
Increased retention of newly hire employees,
Improved employee morale and
Increased productivity.

19. Steps in induction
1. Tour of facilities
2. Introduction to the other employees, superiors
and subordinates.
3. Description of organizational functions.
4. Departmental visit
5. Orientation to philosophy goals and objectives
6. Administration policies and procedures

20. INDUCTION CONT….
Techniques used in induction
Forms of induction
 Internship
 Preceptorship
 Mentorship

21. TYPES CONT…
Job Orientation.
"A good beginning is half the battle!"

22. Meaning
The process of creating awareness with an
individual of his/her roles, responsibilities
and relationships in the new work situation.

23. Components
A new employee to his or her job setting so that
he / she is aware of his/ her job responsibility
and expectation.
present employee to the job responsibilities of
his/ her expanded/ enriched role.
The old employees to the policy changes.

24. Types of orientation
General orientation
Specific orientation

25. IMPORTANCE OF ORIENTATION
PROGRAMME
Provides essential, relevant and necessary information
Helps employee to gain confidence,
Lessen the time for the employee to learn about new situations related to
his/her job setting.
Helps the new employee to develop a sense of belonging
Eliminates
 Learning by trail and error
 Passing of incorrect information by old employees and peers.
 Reduces misinterpretation
 Mistakes and confusion
 Apprehension
Help new employee in solving initial problems and adjust the new
situation/environment,
Acquaints her with personnel services readily with in the
institution/community

26. CONTENT OF AN ORIENTATION
PROGRAMME
The origination and its environment
Policies, rules and regulation
Personnel
Services
Functions to be undertaken

27. TYPES CONT..
In service education

28. Definition
In service education is a planned educational
experience provided in the job setting and
closely identified with services in order to
help person perform more effectively as a
person and as a worker.

29. Concept of in-
service education
Closely identified with
services
Help a
person’s to
improve
performance
effectively
Planned education
activities
Provided in
a job setting

30. Need
Social changes and scientific advancement
Changes and advancement in the field of service
increased the demand of nursing services.
Consumer demand quality care
Rapid changes in medical and nursing practice create
a need for in service education.
Increase number of the people seeking health care as
the population enlarges makes it necessary for the
nurses to function at her highest potential as
quickly as possible.
As health care delivery system become more complex,
the need for continues skill training also
increased.

31. Objective
To provide for and promote the personal growth
and development of the workers
To stimulate and develop occupational
To proved for job satisfaction
identifying and meeting current bearing needs
To disseminate new information from body of
nursing knowledge and health science through
verity of channels.
To acquire up to date knowledge and to make
confidence among the nurses.
To retain experience personnel to foster there
continue education.

32. Steps in in-service
education
Assessment
Pinpoint needs, prioritize needs, set
training objectives, and develop criteria
Implementation
Climatic check, actual conduction of
training with ongoing monitoring
Evaluation
Establishment of criteria, pre test to the participants, post test
following completion of the training or program.
Observation on transfer of learning to the job, follow up studies
for assessment of extent of retention of learning.

33. TYPES CONT…
Continuing education

34. Definition
Continuing education is all the learning
activities that occur after an individual has
completed his basic education
 - cooper
The education which builds a previous
education is called continues education
 -Shannon

35. Aims of continuing education
1.Improvement of professional practice
2.To motivate the staff to seek the latest knowledge
3.To keep the nurses with the latest development of
technologies
4.It develops interest, job satisfaction and
confidence

36. Purpose of continuing education.
Enable a worker to move from satisfactory to
excellent performance
Provides exposure to new concepts, procedural
refinements, innovative product applications, or
acquisition of increased expertise
 Ensure professional development
Increase ability in order to solve the problem in a
clinical teaching/ administrative area.
Improve the ability to communicate or participate in
research work.

37. Need of continuing education
 To ensure safe and effective nursing care
Changing health care delivery system,
Development of nurses by updating their knowledge
For career advancement
Professional are altered as society changes and as
technologies emerge
To acquire specialized skill for professional.

38. CONT…
Training for specific function

39. Definition
This is concerned with developing expert technical or
manual skills, communication and helps the
personnel to perform their functions effectively.
Objectives
1.To help the nursing personnel to perform correct
methods and procedures with understanding.
2.Establishing standards and quality of nursing
services.
3.Procedure to skill nurses to skilled nurses.

40. Types of skills
      Psychomotor skill
      Cognitive skill
      Teaching skills
      Affective skill
      Communication skill
      Supervisory skills

41. Need for skill training
Individual  nurse  needed  to  have  greater 
freedom  to  choose  the  specific  field  of 
nursing in which she would work.
Good work to be recognized and reward.
A venues of advancement and promotion 
need to be better development
Fear of making mistakes

42. Guidelines for skill training
1.Set the stage, using equipment similar to that 
provided for the worker in the work situation.
2.Create in worker a learning attitude, 
3.Give reasons why the procedure is carried out in 
this way in this agency; 
4.Break the activities in to logical steps, necessary 
to carry out the procedure.Demonstrate step by 
step.
5.Make  certain  that  the  person  has  learnt  by 
requiring a return demonstration 
6. Provide written out lines for references.
7. Arrange for follow up (supervision

43. Standards of staff development 
programme (ANA)
Standard 1 – organization and administration
The  nursing  service  department  and  the  nursing  staff 
development unit philosophy, purpose and goals address the 
staff development needs of nursing personnel.
Standard II – human resources
Qualified administrative, educational and support personnel 
are provided to meet the learning and developmental needs 
by nursing services personnel.
Standards III – learner
Nursing  staff  development  educators  assist  nursing 
personnel in identifying their learning needs and planning 
learning activities to meet those needs.

44. Standard IV – program planning
Provides the unit systematically, plans and evaluate the 
overall nursing staff development program in response to 
health care needs.
Standard V – educational design
Educational offering and learning experience are designed 
through the use of educational process and incorporate 
adult education and learning principles.
Standard VI – material resources and facilities
Material sources and facilities are adequate to achieve the 
goals and implement the functions of the overall nursing 
staff development unit.
Standard VII – records and reports
The  nursing  staff  development  unit  establishes  and 
maintains a record keeping and report system

45. Standard VIII – evaluation
Evaluation is an integral ongoing and systematic process, 
which includes measuring the impact on the learning
Standard IX – consultation
Nursing staff development educators use the consultation 
process  to  facilitate  and  enhance  achievement  of 
individual,departmental and organizational goals.
Standard X – climate
Nursing staff development educators foster a climate which 
promotes open communication, learning and professional 
growth.
Standard XI – systematic enquiring
Nursing staff development educators encourage systematic 
inquiry and applications of the results into nursing practice.

46. Potential difficulties in staff development & 
training activities 
Lack of time
Inadequate resources at disposal
Under-funded training budgets
Conflicting priorities
Lack of Clarity about what should be done
Failure to identify, or accept the need.
Shortfall in training skill or experience
Fear that trained employee will leave the organization
or will be poached by competitor. 
Cynical attitude to Staff development-Not directly 
measurable. Treated as Cost not investment.

47. METHODS OF DELIVERING SDP
INDUCTION JOB 
ORIENTATI
ON 
IN- SERVICE CONTINUIN
G 
EDUCATION 
Physical  tour 
of the facilities
Group 
discussion
Seminar
Hand  book 
and pamphlet
Orientation 
Seminar 
Discussion 
Hand out or 
book and 
pamphlets 
     Orientation 
     Skill 
training 
     Continuing 
education 
     Leadership 
training 
Lecture 
Demonstration 
Seminar
Debate 
Journal club 
Book review 
Corresponden
ce course 
Formal course 
Clinical 
research 
TRAINING 
FOR SKILL 
Demonstratio
n 
Discussion 
Role-play 
method. 

48. Induction orientation In-service Continuing Management Organization

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