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Become an effective educator using evidence-based tools & techniques.

New! Second edition updated with evidence-based practice.

Inexperienced educators are often thrust into the role of staff development specialist. Don’t let the nursing shortage cause you or your staff members to be unprepared or your patients to be harmed due to ineffective staff education.

Now, staff development specialists can turn to one resource to become competent and compelling educators while implementing evidence-based practice. HCPro’s new edition of its popular book, A Practical Guide to Staff Development: Evidence-Based Tools and Techniques for Effective Education, Second Edition, combines evidence-based research with the fundamentals of staff development.

This new book teaches staff educators to:

• Base practices on best evidence
• Measure the effectiveness of their training sessions
• Understand adult learning principles to appeal to all age groups
• Implement strategies to motivate learners
• Teach to multicultural and intergenerational audiences
• Incorporate new technologies associated with distance learning

This resource will help prepare the novice staff educators in your facility, as well as revitalize current educators with strategies for adopting new technology and teaching techniques. The innovative ideas in A Practical Guide to Staff Development, Second Edition will improve your entire facility’s ability to deliver all types of critical education, enhancing your staff’s ability to provide exceptional care.

Every discipline in your facility can benefit from this book. Along with over 150 pages of invaluable information, it includes samples of missions, goals, and visions that can be modified to suit different educational needs. In addition, the companion CD-ROM includes tools that staff educators can use to document and assess their training methods, as well as plan activities based on the different learning styles of their audiences.

New information in the second edition:

• Evidence-based practice
• Distance learning
• ROI
• Motivating multigenerational and multicultural learners

Table of contents

Chapter 1: Evolution of staff development
Chapter 2: Mission, vision, and values: Relying on EBP
Chapter 3: Healthcare trends and their impact on staff development
Chapter 4: Qualifications for the staff development specialist
Chapter 5: Evolving roles of the staff development specialist
Chapter 6: Principles of adult learning
Chapter 7: Identifying learning styles
Chapter 8: Teaching multigenerational audiences
Chapter 9: Designing cultural diversity education for a multicultural audience
Chapter 10: Motivation challenges: Managing resistant learners
Chapter 11: Resourceful teaching strategies
Chapter 12: Distance learning
Chapter 13: From novice to expert: A framework for meeting learner needs
Chapter 14: Compiling needs-assessment data
Chapter 15: Orientation
Chapter 16: Mandatory education
Chapter 17: Inservice education
Chapter 18: Continuing education
Chapter 19: An overview of the evaluation process
Chapter 20: Level one: Reaction/learner satisfaction
Chapter 21: Level two: Learning/knowledge acquisition
Chapter 22: Level three: Behavior
Chapter 23: Level four: Results/impact
Chapter 24: Level five: Return on investment

Meet the Author

Adrianne E. Avillion, DEd, RN, is the owner of Avillion’s Curriculum Design in York, PA. She is a past president of the National Nursing Staff Development Organization and specializes in designing continuing education programs for healthcare professionals and freelance medical writing. Avillion also offers consulting services in work redesign, quality improvement, and staff development.

Learning objectives

Describe the historical evolution of staff development
Differentiate between traditional and contemporary staff development practice
Implement strategic planning using mission, vision, and values statements
Determine realistic departmental goals
Determine realistic objectives that correlate with departmental goals
Discuss the impact of current healthcare trends on staff development
Describe the facets of an organizational culture of learning
Determine the appropriate qualifications for staff development specialists in an organization
Identify staff development specialist competencies
Describe the various roles of the staff development specialist
Implement the principles of adult learning in all education activities
Describe characteristics of various learning styles
Identify teaching strategies associated with various learning styles
Describe the characteristics of the four generations active in the current workforce
Identify teaching strategies that facilitate learning for each generation
Identify ways to design effective diversity education
Recognize education barriers that can cause resistance to learning
Implement strategies to motivate the adult learner
Identify resourceful teaching strategies to improve education delivery
Implement specific resourceful teaching strategies effectively
Differentiate among the various types of distance learning
Gather evidence to select the most effective distance learning strategy
Determine teaching strategies using Benner's levels of competency as a framework
Correlate Benner's levels of clinical competency with staff development expertise
Describe practical strategies to obtain needs assessment data
Discuss orientation strategies that facilitate the orientee’s organizational assimilation.
Discuss the concept of mandatory training
List examples of inservice education
Devise strategies for implementation of inservice education
Discuss ways to deliver continuing education
Identify the purposes of evaluation
Describe the various levels of the evaluation process
Describe level one evaluation
Identify ways to measure level two evaluation
Gather evidence to evaluate behavior
Describe level four evaluation
Describe return on investment (ROI)
Identify ways to conduct ROI

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