Staff Development Coordinator

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Hello,

I just had an interview to be a Staff Development Coordinator at a nursing home, however; I have only been a nurse for about 8 months and do not have much experience. Is there anyone else who has gotten a role such as this one with very little experience?

Thank you!

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Oh great, sure, like the staff development coordinator doesn't really need any, like, real experience to be the authority figure doing training.

Nope. When I got my SD job I had been out of college for 16 years, did a master's in my field, and had two previous teaching jobs.

8 months? Really?

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I think the rudeness of your comment was uncalled for. I got an INTERVIEW for this role!!!!! I also have my Master's Degree in Healthcare Management, although my Master's is not in nursing. I have been a nurse for 8 months but have other leadership experience although it was not all in nursing. Before making a rude comment, maybe consider asking further questions. Also...I would consider it a compliment that I got an interview for the position. Thanks for your unhelpful information.

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Also...for your information, I am an administrator and nurse right now.

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Perhaps before inviting the obvious comment, maybe consider providing more information on your qualifications.

You got the interview. Now maybe you'll hear from other people with the "very little experience" you mentioned. You asked.

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I did ask, but figured we were all mature adults and did not need to make snarky or rude comments. I believe there was a better/more mature way of replying, but perhaps that is too much to ask on a public forum. I guess the stereotypes of veteran nurses are true, with the exception of my relatives who are nurse practitioners and have all given me valuable input! :) Have a good night, and thanks for trying to assist! I definitely appreciate opinions and feedback, especially when they are constructive as opposed to belittling.

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I did ask, and I really like valuable and mature comments on my posts. After all, we are all nurses and should be constructive as opposed to belittling right? :) Have a great night!

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I'll bite. I've been in LTC forever and wouldn't really recommend a SDC position for a new grad. Your masters is a nice bonus, but you really should know how to be a nurse and have experience in nursing to teach nursing. The critical thinking and mastery of skills that you will be teaching comes with experience. Sure you can probably do the job, but would you want someome just teaching from a book without experience? Think back to nursing school.

Think about why a facility would want a new grad in that position too? What else is going on that no one else wants the job?

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This is all worth looking into for sure! Thank you for your feedback!

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I did ask, but figured we were all mature adults and did not need to make snarky or rude comments. I believe there was a better/more mature way of replying, but perhaps that is too much to ask on a public forum. I guess the stereotypes of veteran nurses are true, with the exception of my relatives who are nurse practitioners and have all given me valuable input! :) Have a good night, and thanks for trying to assist! I definitely appreciate opinions and feedback, especially when they are constructive as opposed to belittling.

You are not qualified for that job, irrespective of your masters and administrative positions. You have to have some clinical expertise or at least a lot of clinical exposure. You don't have it.

The other comment may have bene overbearing, but I find your indignation over it a little misplaced. It should be obvious, even to you, that you don't have adequate experience for that job.

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I find it interesting that the company interviewed me and it went well! We shall see. They may have liked that I am already on the state registry for all training since that is what I handle in my current role! Thanks much for your feedback! :)

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If I were a nurse working in that nursing home I would likely be very skeptical of supposedly being trained by someone who had eight months of experience and a master's degree in management. I'm truthfully skeptical of master's degrees in management (and leadership, and health care administration...) in general. I might even feel a bit insulted if I were a nurse with many years of experience and someone who had been on a floor for all of ten seconds in comparison showed up and tried to tell me what to do. It's a common complaint among floor nurses - we work hard for years and years only to have some management-type with no clinical experience show up and think they can start dictating how we do our jobs when you really have not much of an idea of what they're like.

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