Evidence-Based Staff Development (Audio Conference)

AUDIOCONFERENCE ON TAPE, CD OR AUDIO ARCHIVE
Sponsored by the book Evidence-Based Staff Development:
Strategies to Create, Measure, and Refine Your Program

presented on June 12, 2007

Across all areas of nursing, evidence-based practice is becoming the standard for improving patient outcomes and quality of care. With an increasing focus on cost-containment and accountability in staff development, it is critical that staff educators learn to use evidence and measurable results to justify and improve their processes. Using evidence-based practice to provide effective staff education can also strengthen your ANCC Magnet Recognition Program® application.

Listen to HCPro's Evidence-Based Staff Development: Strategies for Effective Implementation. During this 90-minute audioconference, learn how to use objective evidence to revise your staff development program and how to demonstrate return on investment. Our expert speakers guide you through the process of gathering data and examining evidence to improve and refine existing programs or create future ones.

At the conclusion of this program, listeners will be able to:

• Explain the significance of evidence-based staff development practice
• Justify staff development initiatives through the use of evidence-based staff development practice
• Identify appropriate staff development research topics
• Cite examples of how research can be translated into practical applications
• Describe how to implement evidence-based staff development practice
• Explain the role of evidence-based staff development in applications for ANCC Magnet Recognition Program® status

BONUS TOOLS

In addition to the expertise and advice presented during this audioconference, you'll also receive a slide presentation of the program materials and these valuable tools:

1. Analysis of current practice
2. Template for initiating evidence-based staff development practice
3. Roles of nursing professional development educators
4. Example of an orientation program based on selected competencies 
5. Sample competency checklist

These materials are provided with PDF links.

AGENDA

• Significance of evidence-based staff development practice
• Justification of evidence-based staff development initiatives
• Impact on patient outcomes
• Impact on organizational goals
• Return on investment (ROI)
• Identification and implementation of appropriate staff development research topics and initiatives
• Competencies
• Teaching strategies
• Practice issues
• Practical applications of research findings to practice
• Orientation
• Self-assessments
• Evaluation
• Job performance
• Implementing evidence based-staff development practice
• Analysis of current practice
• Template for initiating evidence-based staff development practice
• Evaluating effectiveness of evidence-based staff development practice
• Evidence-based staff development practice and the achievement of ANCC Magnet Recognition Program® status
• Staff development role
• Evidence to support organizational excellence

A Q&A session follows the presentation.

FACULTY

Adrianne E. Avillion, D.Ed., RN, is the president/owner of Avillion’s Curriculum Design in York, PA. A past Vice-President of the National Nursing Staff Development Organization (NNSDO), she specializes in freelance medical writing and designing continuing education programs for healthcare professionals. She also offers consulting services in work redesign, quality improvement, and staff development. She is the author of Evidence-Based Staff Development: Strategies to Create, Measure, and Refine Your Program and Designing Nursing Orientation: Evidence-Based Strategies for Effective Programs, published by HCPro.

Barbara A. Brunt, MA, MN, RN-BC, is director of Nursing Education and Staff Development for Summa Health System Hospitals in Akron, OH, and in July will start a two-year term as president of the National Nursing Staff Development Organization (NNSDO). She has presented on a variety of topics both locally and nationally, has served as section editor for the first and second editions of The Core Curriculum for Staff Development, published by NNSDO, and is the author of Competencies for Staff Educators: Tools to Evaluate and Enhance Nursing Professional Development, published by HCPro.

WHO SHOULD LISTEN?

Staff development specialists, organizational development specialists, directors of education, directors of nursing, chief nursing officers (CNOs), VPs of nursing, nursing home administrators, HR directors

NEW PURCHASE OPTION: Audio Archive

In addition to the regular participation options for HCPro audioconferences— audio tape or audio CD, we are pleased to offer a new option: an audio archive that allows you to download the program and play it back at your convenience on your computer or MP3 player.

Purchase a tape, CD, or audio archive of the program and listen when you can. It's also a perfect training tool for new staff or as a refresher for veteran staff.

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