[Effie, RN]

Hi there- I am the educator for a Senior Living Organization...1 nursing home, 230 beds; 4 assisted living facilities, totalling about 150 beds, and 13 apartment buildings scattered all over the St. Louis metropolitan area. We have between 550 and 600 employees and I am a department of one!!! I do most of the new staff orientation and all annual training plus I am the employee health nurse. EEK! I'm working hard to get a computer based education system for the annual compliance training which will free my time up to do more need-based training with the nursing staff, which are the bulk of the employees. The way we get compliance is that they cannot get their annual eval checked off until they complete their training and PPD. Wait too long and they get taken off the schedule until they comply. This applies to everyone, right up to administrators! That only works if you have a CEO who is a believer (mine is a nurse also.) NNSDO is a great resource, highly recommend it.

[kelkdea7]

I have just been hired for a newly created position - Manager of Learning and Development (aka SDN by non-nurse). Is anyone else in here NOT a nurse.

I work for a not for profit CCRC with 100+ beds. Any words of wisdom.

[kelkdea7]

If you are doing any training after a meal (lunch, dinner) good idea to have them stretch, standup, anything to get them moving no more than 20 minutes after the meal.

Could use a large beach ball and throw it from person to person and the person receiving the ball has to answer the next question.

dk

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Hi Cali nurse and others, I am new to staff development (over 20 yr exp. med/surg, almost 8 in mental health) My position is newly created in psychiatric healthcare system with 3 levels of care. I am not in staff development dept, but rather nsg. admin. I am having an identity crisis. I look forward to learning from others here and so glad I found this site!
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