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AUDIOCONFERENCE ON TAPE OR CD

Sponsored by Recruitment & Retention Monthly

presented on May 31, 2006

FEATURING RENOWNED STAFF EDUCATORS
SHELLEY COHEN AND POLLY GERBER ZIMMERMANN!

To meet the challenges in their career ahead, it is imperative for new graduate nurses to develop critical thinking skills. The quality of care delivered in your facility depends on it.

Teach new graduates to think like a nurse

During this audioconference our speakers—including renowned staff educators Shelley Cohen, RN and Polly Gerber Zimmermann, RN MS MBA CEN—will discuss the principles of critical thinking and how to develop skills in new graduate nurses. Through teaching tips and real-life scenarios, this program will provide strategies to help facilities develop critical thinking classes for new graduates and encourage all nurses to think critically.

Critical thinking at the bedside, important for more reasons than one! Instills confidence Improves patient outcomes Encourages independent practice Understand implications and consequences Improve patient assessments

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

At the end of this program, participants will be able to:

• Discuss the principles of critical thinking.
• Discuss ways to design classes to teach critical thinking skills.
• Identify ways the preceptor can help a new graduate nurse develop critical thinking skills.
• Describe the role the nurse manager can play in the ongoing development of critical thinking skills.
• Identify how focusing on critical thinking skills can aid new graduate retention.

PROGRAM AGENDA

1. What is critical thinking?
2. Defining expectations
3. Principles of critical thinking
   • Del Bueno's four components for clinical judgment/critical thinking
   • Prioritization principles and the need to teach them
4. Classroom skills for teaching critical thinking
   • Cooperative learning
   • Multi-sensory learning
   • Unfolding case studies
   • Orientation guides/brains in the pocket
5. Critical thinking skills in everyday practice
   • Examples of "teaching moments" that ignite critical thinking
   • Role of preceptor
   • Role of nurse manager
6. Retention strategies
   • Encouraging the new graduate nurse's sense of accomplishment
   • Relationship of critical thinking skills to improved patient outcomes and less errors in judgment
7. Question & answer session

FACULTY

Shelley Cohen, RN, is the educator and consultant for Health Resources Unlimited, a company she founded in 1997. Her humorous approach to problem solving has captivated audiences across the country. She brings 30 years of experience into the classroom and is nationally known as an author, speaker and coach.

Currently active in patient care, her timely experiences are relevant to the issues at hand which allows her to understand the perspectives from both the staff nurse as well as the administrative team. Her web based Tips of The Month and her publications through HCPro have had a positive impact on health care workers by empowering them with knowledge. With a focus on triage and leadership development, Shelley is committed to the mission of Health Resources Unlimited by offering reality based and timely programs.

Polly Gerber Zimmermann, RN MS MBA CEN, has been in active clinical practice for over 28 years and involved with educating adults for more than 10 years. She was the senior course manager for the nursing division of the National Center for Advanced Medical Education and is a tenured assistant professor in the department of nursing at the Harry S Truman College in Chicago. Under her guidance, the school's curriculum instituted an integration of prioritization principles and critical thinking that resulted in the school's students improving from below to above national average results in these areas on standardized test scores.

WHO SHOULD LISTEN?

• Nurse managers
• Directors of nursing
• Chief nursing officers
• VPs of Nursing
• Nursing home administrators
• HR directors
• Staff educators
• Charge nurses

PROGRAM MATERIALS

In addition to the expertise and advice presented during this audioconference, you'll also receive a slide presentation of the program materials and tools including a sample classroom agenda and materials to create your own critical thinking skills course. These materials will be provided with PDF links.

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

Publisher :  HCPro, Inc
 
Product Types :

• Audioconferences

Departments :

• Other Nursing Products

ORDER CLASS: N_05-31-2006
SOURCE CODE: EHCM