Nursing Home Staff Educator, Brand New

[justdeda]

It's true. If you work as an agency nurse long enough, a job you can bear will happen.

Through a night supervision stint at a local nursing home, I got noticed and recruited to part-time night supervisor in a nearby state. Soon after, the Staff Development/Infection Control position opened, and I slipped into something that seemed to be made for my particular mix of training, experience, and interest.

I'm new at this game; the game of daytime nursing from an office, the game of running after staff hoping to catch them and teach them some mandatories and some fun stuff...and still keeping up the infection control side of the job, including employee health and resident logs, and filling in when nursing runs short!

Here on your Nursing Educators forum, I'm finding educators teaching students, not staff.

I'd love to hear from some Nursing Home Staff educators, if any of you are out there?

Please send me a private message.

Thanks!

deda

[VickyRN, MSN, DNP, RN]

welcome to the nursing educator forum, justdeda :)

hopefully, someone will come along and share some helpful tips for staff education. here is a online resource which may be of benefit to you (perhaps your facility will underwrite the cost):

getting started as a staff educator

april 17-may 19, 2006

september 18-october 27, 2006

this asynchronous online course will assist healthcare professionals transition from a competent clinician or faculty member into a role in staff development with increased confidence. concepts from nursing professional development frame much of the course content. however, the concepts, strategies, and tools apply well in all clinical disciplines.

as the participants study the content and engage in learning activities, they will discover useful, practical information--whether taking responsibility for staff development in a facility, entering a position in a staff development department, or accepting additional responsibilities for staff development as a part of a clinical or faculty position.

objectives

at the end of this course, participants will be able to:

1. give examples of appropriate activities to illustrate the six component roles of the staff educator including the following: educator, facilitator, change agent, consultant, leader, researcher
   
2. describe effective techniques for assessing learning needs of staff members.
   
3. construct an effective plan to meet learning needs of staff members.
   
4. identify issues and strategies in implementing learning sessions in a clinical setting.
   
5. create a sound plan for evaluating staff learning considering process, content, and outcome evaluation.
   

http://nursing.iupui.edu/lifelonglearning/default.asp?/lifelonglearning/onlinecourses/gs_staffedu.htm

[Lyssi]

Hi,

I am a clinical nursing instructor at a local nursing home. The RN for their education/staff development position just left to pursue another position and her position was filled with an LPN. This nurse is responsible for teaching RN'S as well as LPN'S in the facility. I have a concern regarding LPN'S teaching RN'S and I was wondering if this is being done in other facilities. I would appreciate hearing from others regarding this.