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:nurse: Hello all Staff Developers !

I found this sight today and have been having the most wonderful time on it.

My name is Cali. I work in California in a long term care facility that is also part of an acute hospital.

My duties are education, infection control, compliance issues, and of course anything else that has been cast to the side or anything else that I discover needs improvement.

I have been doing this for 3 1/2 years now. I really do enjoy it.

I think we should all use this bulletin board to network together and share thoughts, issues, concerns, lessons plans, material, self learning modules, & etc.

If you would like to start our own web ring so to speak then sign in on the roll call.

We can be very valuable to each other. There are many Long Term Care facilities and one of us in each building. Where are my peers?????

Hope to see you soon,

Cali

Specializes in cardiology, education.

Hello, all. I am the Director of Clinical Education at a small community hospital, where 4.1 FTEstake care of every employee in house and in some outpatient facilities, though our focus is nursing service. There are limited resources and funding, antique technology (is that an oxymoron?), etc. There is a group for us...the National Nursing Staff Development Organization. Check the NNSDO web site and go to the affiliate roster link, then look for your state and local affiliates. You can get a lot of support through your sisters (& brothers) in staff development. I belong to the National and recently helped a new affiliate form in Pittsburgh; there are NO other affiliates in PA, so this was a major undertaking. We are a fledgling group but learning to fly!

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Specializes in rehab., LTC, Management.

Hi, I'm new to this site and to SDC as well :chair: . I was a PPS coordinator for 2 yrs. but wanted a change of "scenery". I have looked into NNSDO. Is it worth joining? Also, can anyone direct me to beneficial journals, books, etc. that would be helpful to a new staff develop. coord.? The second aspect of my position is infection control :confused: . Any tips on that would be appreciated as well. Thanks in advance for your input!

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:) Hello calinurse. I have been SDC and Restorative Coordinator for approx. 1 year now. I create a % of my own inservices. Of course the compliance issues inservices are created by the company for the most part however, we are able to submit some of our own for our "as needed" and "specific" requirements. I use a lot of our vendors for inservices. They love to talk about their products and provide education with it.

The biggest problem I run into is getting the staff to attend the inservices. With the shortage and the constant revolving door with CNA's I have found it to be a challenge to get them into the inservices. Do you ever have that problem and if so what do you do?

I work in a LTC facility with 120 beds (we run with census around 117 most of the time). We have a lot of admissions and discharges. The company I work for is "for profit" so that should tell you the :( staffing pattern. Of course I also work for a company that allows only 1 educator per facility.

This is a really neat site to get information and meet other healthcare workers. :roll

I work in LTC. We have an incentive plan. In a two week pay period if you don't call out, get written up, and attend all mandatory meetings you get an xtra 50 cents an hour.

I don't think that's a bad incentive for just doing what you are supposed to be doing anyway but I'm always amazed at the number of people who don't comply.

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Hello everyone-

I am director of hospital and community education at a small rural hospital in georgia. We have 600 employees in the hospital and nursing home and wellness center.

It has been only a year since I started doing staff development in addition to community education.

I have found that time constraints had to really make me creative. It was apparent the previous director was not having much luck with attendance. Who has time to wait to do a class and no one shows up? We started putting everything we could on our employee area of our web page. For those that do not have the internet, I created Education Binders for all the nursing units, the nursing home and the outlying clinics. Each one has all of the education, whether powerpoints, dvds, articles of general interest etc. Each has a post-test. Since my boss, the VP of Patient Care Services will pass on articles or info she wants me to inservice, I started a nursing education update newsletter which monthly is on the web site and in the binders. I have only been doing this since a little over 3 months it is hard to tell how it will go in the long run, but 388 people have attempted and passed the different items. I feel pretty sure this is more people than would have attended inservices in person. Also, it lets the night shift and prn people have access to what is going on without returning all the time for different shifts. We also video all the inservices that are done and put the DVDs in the binders also.

I am looking for some interactive clinical education materials that would let people make decisions and then see how they work out, ie one mentioned at one time was Toe Tags, (which I have not found yet) that if the incorrect decisions are made, the patient dies. Anyone with info on these types of training?

Thanks

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Specializes in Med-Surg,Telemetry,LPN Inst.,Staff Dev.

Hi to all you SD nurses, so nice to find you all. I just left a 200+bed LTC facility doing most of what you all are talking about;orientation, employee health, health tracking, mandatory/annual inservices, med pass audits (and other audits that no one else wanted) lab tracking, and so much more. It was pretty overwhelming. I too had difficulty getting staff to inservices. And I had an administrator that was the twin of the boss (Miranda) in the movie The Devil Wears Prada. The pay was great but not enough to take the daily mental abuse. Now I'm in a juvenile (13-18) psych setting of 84 beds. I took a big pay cut but I'm so much happier.

I'm looking for resources on-line that can be used by nurses to teach the kids about their meds, STD's, risky behaviors, ect. Needs to be simple and interactive to keep them focused. Any ideas out there?

Marshadolce

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Specializes in Med-Surg,Telemetry,LPN Inst.,Staff Dev.

Hi SD Nurses,

I taught at the LPN level, and then started staff development. I found I really love teaching. I started in LTC, now I'm in a juvenile behavioral residential setting. Lot's of psych nursing and a little bit of peds. But nursing is nursing. Let's keep in touch.

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Specializes in LTC , SDC and MDS certified (3.0).

I just started this position 2 days ago!! Nobody had this position since Nov. SO I'm just getting my files inorder and I've called one person to come do an inservice. Otherwise I've been keeping a list of what I've observed.(g-tube flush on main hallway) It's LTC I've had 12 years LTC I'm excited and scared to death at the sme time!!

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Specializes in pediatrics, ed, public health.

I am so glad I found this website. I just checked out the National website for National Nursing Staff Development and I plan to attend. I feel so lost right not, just want to run back to my old position of staff nurse (safe and secure). I am enjoying reading about what other have tried. I would love to start a website of shared resourses (like power point presentation, etc)

I look forward to reading more

Cali RN

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Hi

Does anyone have an idea about working in a Rheumatology clinic and what is required. I don't see any thread on clinic nursing. I have decided to accept a job at a clinic. Former med/surg Nurse.

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I am a Staff Development Nurse/ for a LTC in Florida. Glad to hear from others!

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Specializes in Long term care.

Hi everyone! I'm so glad I found a site where I can talk to other SDC's. I've been a staff developmnet coordinator for 4 years. I'm also the infection control nurse at our LTCF. Before taking the job as SDC, I was a nurse aide instructor for 5 years. I love to teach!! I schedule inservice speakers but do a lot of my own inservices & self study packets for CNA's. I'm always looking for new, fun ideas to present the same old material. Please share any good ideas you have or techniques that work for you and I'll do the same. I'm so excited to work and talk with all of you!! Becky

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Specializes in Geriatrics.

Hi Staff Developers,

I am a D.O.N. in a small lng term care facility - only 66 beds. I can not keep a nurse in staff developer position and I want to know what I am doing wrong. Right now this position is vacant and I am in my state survey window so I need to fill it. My SDC duties include not only inservices but keeping our CNAs schedule up to date. She hires all new CNAs and keeps up with their certifications and skills. Is this a common duty for Staff Developer? She takes call for the CNAs and is required to find replacement for any call ins. These have been the duties of SDC for many years and if I can not keep this position filled, maybe something needs to be changed. Any ideas?

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