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Ideas to train/evaluate nurses ASAP

Hi,

I recently began a position as a clinical educator for a private home health agency. It's my first position in nursing education, which has been my goal (am also starting my MSN program in August)!

My agency has had some long term difficulties with the quality of their private duty nurses/home health aides, hence the "creation" of my position. I realize between the novelty of my position as well as my inexperience that it is going to be challenging to initiate change in bad behaviors/poor performance.

Recently, my manager has asked me to come up with some ideas to provide some form of short term, intense training JUST for the nurses to reinforce customer service, bag technique, and other basic skills. She asked me to write up a presentation for her and the director. I'm trying to think of ideas-I thought about doing a "skills fair" over a few days, but I know that they don't want to take a lot of time (re: pay for a lot of time) for the nurses to invest in it.

So, I'm looking for any feedback on ideas to quickly evaluate and train approximately 40 nurses-field visits not feasible due to time constraints on my schedule (I do three days of inservice/orientation weekly and have other tasks that take up part of the other two days).

Thanks for any help!

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    do skills stations.....stations that address each need...ie:bagging. ..have help...like an RT teaching bagging....u can do it over a few days and nurses can come and go getting checked off on various skills while on staff (if possible). that will save money. they can have checklists and need to be signed off as they work there way through

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    Does your unit use online short courses as CEUs. You can select topics related to the staff weak areas and have them complete them monthly. If they receive CEU for this, it could be an incentive. Then like the previous post said, have them do a skills check off. The various shifts could huddle on a topic every other day or however suits you. This will remind your staff of the areas that need improvement.

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