Innovation in Nursing Staff Development

Cutting-edge teaching strategies that won’t break your budget

Earn 3 continuing education credits

Give your current curriculum a facelift
This ground-breaking resource guides staff development professionals through a wide variety of proven, cutting-edge teaching techniques for clinical and non-clinical staff. Written by renowned industry experts, this book offers practical, easy-to-follow instructions that can be applied to any teaching setting. Customizable forms, tools, and templates enable educators to engage learners and improve outcomes.

Benefits:

• Enhance learner outcomes by using proven, cutting-edge teaching techniques
• Budget staff time and resources efficiently through cost-effective analysis of specific teaching methods
• Breathe life into your existing program by incorporating new, practical, easy-to-implement techniques
• Save your valuable time with a one-stop shop for a variety of cutting-edge educational techniques

Earn 3 continuing education credits

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Overview of Educational Perspectives, Learning Styles, and Accompanying Innovations
Models of Education Delivery
Learning Styles
Selecting Teaching Strategies

Chapter 2: Classroom Innovations
Advantages to the Classroom Setting
Disadvantages to the Classroom Setting
Types of Programs Best Suited to the Classroom Setting
Finding Innovative Classrooms
Examples of Innovative Classroom Strategies
Summary

Chapter 3: Diverse Strategies: Considering Other Options
Case Study Options as a Focus for Innovative Teaching/Learning Strategies
Bulletin Boards
Concept Mapping
Journaling and Journal Clubs
Mock Trials
Newsletters
Posters
Virtual Scavenger Hunts

Chapter 4: Simulation
Computerized Patient Simulators
Other Forms of Human Simulation
Starting a Simulation Program
Other Simulation Modalities
Role Play
Standardized Patients
Serious Games, Immersive Environments, and Virtual Worlds
Computer Interactive Devices
Task Trainers, Surgical Simulators, and Procedural Trainers
Incorporating Team Training into Simulations

Chapter 5: Emerging Technological Applications
Mobile Devices/Mobile Platforms
Social Networking

Chapter 6: Computer-Based Learning (CBL)
Advantages of CBL
CBL Drawbacks
Building a Technical Learning Architecture to Support CBL
Selection, Evaluation, and Implementation of CBL Learning Interventions
Building Your Own CBL Courses
Evaluating CBL Vendors
CBL Deployment Failures and Dealing with Resistance
Justifying CBL Costs
The Future of CBL

Chapter 7: Collaboration Strategies
Justifying Collaboration
Identifying Potential Partners in Collaboration
Formalizing the Collaboration
Summary

Chapter 8: Copyright and Fair Use
What Is Copyright?
What Works Can Be Protected by Copyright?
Who Can Claim Copyright?
When Is My Organization’s Work Protected?
How Long Does Copyright Protection Last?
What Cannot Be Protected by Copyright?
What Is Fair Use?
How Do I Get Permission to Use a Copyrighted Work?

Author:

Adrianne E. Avillion, DEd, RN, is the owner of Avillion’s Curriculum Design in York, PA, and specializes in designing continuing education programs for healthcare professionals and freelance medical writing. She is the editor of the monthly journal Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development, and is a frequent presenter at NNSDO and various conferences and conventions devoted to continuing education and staff development.

Contributing authors:

Mary Holtschneider, RN, BC, BSN, MPA, NREMT-P, is a nurse educator with a wide variety of teaching experience. Previously, she was assistant clinical professor and director of the Center for Nursing Discovery at Duke University School of Nursing in Durham, NC, where she ran the student simulation learning center and collaborated with the School of Medicine on interprofessional team training as a TeamSTEPPS Master Trainer. Prior to that, she served for nine years as the heart center staff development educator at Duke University Health System.

Linda R. Puetz, RN, BA, BSN, MEd, is a clinical learning strategist and senior learning consultant at Cerner Corporation. Prior to this position, she was a staff education specialist for Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics in Kansas City, MO, where she developed multiple adult learning interventions for physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals and staff members. She served as Member-at-Large on the Board of the National Nursing Staff Development Organization from 2003-2005, and was an active member of the NNSDO Informatics Committee from 2002 through 2008.

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HCPro, Inc., has confirmed that none of the faculty/presenters, planners, or contributors have any relevant financial relationships to disclose related to the content of this educational activity.

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