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AUDIOCONFERENCE ON CD OR AUDIO ON-DEMAND

Sponsored by Evidence-Based Competency Management Series

presented on April 14, 2008

Build confidence, save time, and provide top-notch patient care by creating an evidence-based competency management program

If you’re like other nurse educators, you spend a lot of time creating and updating skill sheets for Joint-Commission compliant competency validation of your nurses.

Don’t waste time searching for the right resources to assess your nurses skill sets. Instead, get all the advice, skill sheets, and tools you need straight from experts Barbara A. Brunt, MA, MN, RN-BC, and Donna Chase, RN, MS, during HCPro’s audioconference, Evidence-Based Nursing Competencies: Effective Assessment and Validation Tools to Ensure Patient Safety.

In just 90 minutes, you’ll get hospital-wide and unit-specific tips and tools for performing evidence-based competency validation. Whether you’re creating a new program or refreshing a current one, this audioconference will help you meet regulatory requirements, ground your competencies in best evidence, and increase the ability of your nurses to provide safe patient care.

AGENDA

1. What is competency assessment and validation?
   1. The case for competencies
   2. Types of competencies
      1. Initial
      2. Ongoing
   3. Ensuring competencies are evidence-based
2. The requirements for competency assessment and validation
   1. The Joint Commission
   2. The American Nurses Association  (ANA)
   3. Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
3. Process of competency assessment and validation
   1. Training staff members to validate competencies
      1. Learning styles: No one size fits all
         1. Return demonstrations
         2. Reviewing policies
   2. Determining who will validate
4. Tools to assess and validate competence in small and large hospital settings
   1. Checklists
   2. Skill sheets
   3. Self-learning modules
   4. Learning management systems
5. Setting up an overall competency management program
   1. Including competencies in job descriptions and the performance evaluation process
   2. How to develop your own assessment tools
   3. Developing policies and outlining responsibilities for everyone
   4. Keeping up with new competencies

A question and answer session follows the program

BONUS TOOLS

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

• Policy template
• Sample checklist for validating competencies
• Sample competency-based orientation policy
• Initial, ongoing, and annual competency validation processes
• Examples from the self-learning module
• Evidence-based competency sheets, including:
• Homegoing instructions
• Insulin administration
• Urinary catheterization
• Seclusion and restraint

These materials are provided with PDF links.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

After listening to this audioconference, you will be able to:

1. Describe the process of competency assessment and validation
2. Identify the impact of regulatory agencies on competencies
3. Identify who assesses and validates competence
4. Use various methods and tools to validate competence
5. Discuss how to set up a competency management program

MEET THE SPEAKERS

Barbara A. Brunt, MA, MN, RN-BC, is director of nursing education and staff development for Summa Health System Hospitals in Akron, OH. As the current president of the National Nursing Staff Development Organization (NNSDO), she has held a variety of staff development positions, including educator, coordinator, and director for the past 28 years. She served as section editor for the first and second editions of The Core Curriculum for Staff Development, published by NNSDO, and was part of the task force that revised the Scope and Standards of Practice for Nursing Professional Development, published by ANA. She is a co-author of the Competency Management System: Toolkit for Validation and Assessment, published by HCPro.

Donna Chase, RN, MS, is the director of accreditation/clinical professional development at South Shore Hospital in Weymouth, MA. She oversees and facilitates the preparation and compliance with the Joint Commission (formerly JCAHO) survey process for South Shore Hospital. She is responsible for the continuous accreditation readiness for the organization as well as organizational education and training.

WHO SHOULD LISTEN

Staff educators, staff developers, nurse managers, clinical nurse specialists, VPs of nursing, administrators, and clinicians

AUDIO ON-DEMAND

In addition to the regular purchase option for HCPro audioconferences— CD, we are pleased to offer another option, an audio on-demand. Audio on-demand allows you to download the program and play it back at your convenience through your computer or MP3 player.

Purchase a CD or audio on-demand 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.

Publisher :  HCPro, Inc
 
Product Types :

• Audioconferences

Departments :

• Other Nursing Products

ORDER CLASS: N_04-14-2008
SOURCE CODE: EHCM