STAFF DEVELOPMENT
PROGRAMME
Introduction
• Staff development refers to all training and
education provided by an employer to
improve the occupational and personal
knowledge, skills and attitudes of vested
employees.
Introduction
• Staff development is the process directed
towards the personal and professional growth
of nurses and other personnel while they are
employed by a health care agency.
Definition
Staff development refers to the
processes, programs and activities
through which every organization
develops, enhances and improves the
skills, competencies and overall
performance of its employees and
workers.
Need for staff development:-
• Scientific advancement
– Advancement in the field of science like
medical science and technology.
Need for staff development:-
• To provide the opportunity for nurses to continually
acquire and implement the knowledge, skills,
attitudes, for the maintenance of high quality of
nursing care:
– As part of an individual's long-term career growth.
– To add or improve skills needed in the short term
– Being necessary to fill gap in the past performance
– To change or correct long-held attitudes of
employee
– To increase the productivity and quality of the
work.
– To motivate employees and to promote employee
loyalty
• Assist each employee to improve
performance in his/her position.
• Assist each employee to acquire
personal and professional abilities that
maximize the possibility of career
advancement.
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• To increase employee productivity.
• To ensure safe and effective patient care
by nurses.
• To ensure satisfactory job performance
by personnel.
• To orient the personnel to job duties, policies, and
agency regulations.
• To help employees cope with new practice role.
PRINCIPLES INVOLVED IN
STAFF DEVELOPMENT:
• Activities must be based on needs
and interest of employees and
organization.
• Learning is combination of theory
and practical.
PRINCIPLES INVOLVED STAFF
DEVELOPMENT:
• Learning involves changes in behaviour
• Problem solving approach is well
suited because; effective learning
takes place when there is
need/problem
PRINCIPLES INVOLVED STAFF
DEVELOPMENT:
• Teaching – learning should be based on
educational principles.
• Learning is active process i.e., teacher and learner
should be active in learning.
Types of staff development:-
Induction
training
Job
orientation
In-service
education
Continuing
education
Induction training:-
• It is a brief, standardised introduction to an agency’s
philosophy, purpose, policies and regulations given to
each worker during her or his first 2 or 3 days of
employment in order to ensure his or her
identification with agency’s philosophy, goals and
norms.
Need of induction training:-
• Increased retention of newly hire employees,
• Improved employee morale
• Increased productivity.
Steps in induction:-
1. Tour of faculties
2. Introduction to the
other employees, superiors
and subordinates.
3. Description of
organizational functions.
4. Departmental visit
Job orientation:-
• It is an individualised training programme
intended to acquaint a newly hired
employee with job responsibilities, work
place, clients and co-workers.
• The process of creating awareness with an
individual of his/her roles, responsibilities
and relationships in the new work
situation.
(2- 24weeks)
Types of orientation:-
General orientation
Specific orientation
Importance of orientation programme
• Provides essential, relevant and necessary
information .
• Helps employee to gain confidence.
• Lessen the time for the employee to learn about new
situations related to his/her job setting.
• Helps the new employee to develop a sense of
belonging.
• Eliminates :
Learning by trail and error
Passing of incorrect information by old employees
and peers.
Reduces misinterpretation
Help new employee in solving initial problems and
adjust the new situation/environment,
Content of an orientation programme:-
The organisation and its environment
Policies, rules and regulation
Personnel
Functions to be undertaken
In-service education:-
Definition:-
• In-service education is a planned learning
experience provided by the employing
agency for employees.
In-service education:-
Definition:-.
• In service education is a planned
educational experience provided in the
job setting and closely identified with
services in order to help person perform
more effectively as a person and as a
worker.
Concept of in-service education:-
• Closely identified with services
• Help a person’s to improve performance effectively
• Planned education activities
• Provided in a job setting
Need:-
• Social changes and scientific
advancement
• Changes and advancement in the field
of service.
• Increased the demand of nursing
services.
Need:-
• Consumer demand quality care.
• Rapid changes in medical and nursing
practice create a need for in service
education.
Aims:-
• Improvement of client through
upgrading the services rendered with
scientific principles.
• To keep in face in changing society to
their needs.
• Acquisition of new knowledge
Aims:-
• Improvement of performance
• To develop specific skills required for
practice.
• To maintain high standards of nursing
• To observe and bring change in staff members
chances for promotion
• It reduces turnover, absenteeism.
TYPES
CENTRALIZED IN-SERVICE TRAINING-
• The in-service curriculum ought to formulated from
and be conducted by nursing personnel in the central
administration of the agency.
• None of the learners are consulted or participate in
planning learning experiences and yet are expected to
attend an in-service offering.
Decentralized in-service education
• It is planned by and conducted for the employees
of one or more units.
• The employees are expected to keep administration
informed of their activities and possibly consult
with administration when help is wanted
Decentralized in-service education
• employees are expected to develop and direct their
own learning experiences.
• In this approach, control in planning for an in-
service is a responsibility of employees and the
qualities which are valued more are self direction,
initiative and participation.
Combined in-service approach-
• In this, the higher nursing authorities and all
staff proposed programme of education.
• They plan, conduct and evaluate the
programme and further plan their programme
basing on the need arises.
Steps in in-service education:-
• Assessment:
• Pinpoint needs,
• prioritize needs,
• set training objectives,
• develop criteria
Steps in in-service education:-
• Implementation:
• pre test to the participants,
• Actual conduction of training with ongoing
monitoring
• Evaluation:
• post test following completion of the training or
program.
• Observation on transfer of learning to the job
• follow up studies for assessment of extent of
retention of learning.
Continuing education:-
• “Continuing education is all the learning activities
that occur after an individual has completed his/her
basic education.” (COOPER)
• “The education which builds on previous education.”
(SHANON)
Need for continuing education:-
• To ensure safe and effective nursing care as nurses
need to keep abreast with knowledge and technical
advances.
• To develop the nurses’ by updating their knowledge
and prepare them for specialization.
• For career advancement.
• With the advancement of technology, new role
change takes place and to play those roles,
education is required.
• To acquire special skills.
Functions of continuing education:-
• To meet the health needs and public expectations.
• To develop the practicing abilities of the nurse.
• To recognize gaps in knowledge.
• To maintain the academic standards.
• To provide opportunities for educational growth.
• To maintain the roles as bed side nurses and to
assume more supervisor, administrative to specialize
and to generalize the practice.
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Steps of staff development program:-
• Assess the educational needs of all staff members
• Set priority
• Develop general objectives for the staff development
program
• Determine the resources needed to reach the desired
objectives
Steps of staff development program:-
• Develop a master calendar for an entire
programme
• Develop and maintain staff development record
system
• Establish files on major educational topics
• Regularly evaluate the staff development
program
Staff development model
• The model includes assessment, planning,
implementation and evaluation
Assessment
Learner’s
readiness to
learn
Learning
needs, skills/
ability/knowl
edge
Planning
Finding
resources
Matching
needs and
methods.
Implementation
Learners
Educators
Materials
Methods
Evaluation
Achievement
Transfer of
learning
Assessment
• Assessment includes learner’s readiness to learn
and his specific learning needs such as skill,
ability or knowledge.
• educational needs can be based on
organizational goal.
Assessment
• In this way staff development programs are
used in the most cost-effective and efficient
way.
Planning-
• involves obtaining learning resource to
present to the learner and then matching
learning needs with educational methods.
• The staff development or education
department may use a variety of media for
example television, computer assisted
instructions etc.
Planning-
Three main questions should be considered
during assessment and planning :
• Can the learner do what is required?
• How should the staff development program
be arranged to facilitate learning?
• What can be done to ensure that what is
learned will be transferred to the job?
Implementation
• implementation is the gathering together of the
educator, learner and all of the material and
methods needed for the education program and
actualization of plan.
Evaluation
• an investigative process to determine
• whether the education was cost-effective,
• whether the objective was achieved and
• whether learning was transferred from the
learning site to actual use on the job.
Evaluation
• The purpose is to determine whether the
education program has a positive effect on day to
day operating problems and to identify elements
of the program that need improvement.
BENEFITS OF STAFF
DEVELOPMENT:
For the employees:
• Leads to improved professional
practice
• Aids in updating knowledge and
skills at all levels of organization
• Keeps abreast of the latest trends and
developments in techniques
BENEFITS OF STAFF
DEVELOPMENT:
For the employees:
• Equips with knowledge of current
research and developments
• Helps to learn new and to maintain
old competencies
BENEFITS OF STAFF
DEVELOPMENT:
For the organizations/employer:
• Keeps staff enthusiastic in their
learning
• Develop interest and job satisfaction
amongst the staff
• Develops the sense of responsibilities
BENEFITS OF STAFF
DEVELOPMENT:
For the organizations/employer:
• Creates an appropriate environment
for sound decisions as well as using
effective problem solving techniques.
• Helps to adjust to change
• Aids in developing leadership skills,
motivation and better attitudes
BENEFITS OF STAFF
DEVELOPMENT:
For the organizations/employer:
• Aids in encouraging and
achieving self development and
self confidence
• Makes the organization a better
place to worker
Methods of delivering staff development
programme:-
Induction
Physical tour of the faculties
Group discussion
Seminar
Hand book and pamphlet
Job orientation
Orientation
Seminar
Discussion
Hand out or book and pamphlets
In-service education
Orientation
Skill training
Leadership training
Continuing education
Correspondence course
Formal course
Clinical research
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  • 1.
  • 2.
    Introduction • Staff developmentrefers to all training and education provided by an employer to improve the occupational and personal knowledge, skills and attitudes of vested employees.
  • 3.
    Introduction • Staff developmentis the process directed towards the personal and professional growth of nurses and other personnel while they are employed by a health care agency.
  • 4.
    Definition Staff development refersto the processes, programs and activities through which every organization develops, enhances and improves the skills, competencies and overall performance of its employees and workers.
  • 5.
    Need for staffdevelopment:- • Scientific advancement – Advancement in the field of science like medical science and technology.
  • 6.
    Need for staffdevelopment:- • To provide the opportunity for nurses to continually acquire and implement the knowledge, skills, attitudes, for the maintenance of high quality of nursing care: – As part of an individual's long-term career growth. – To add or improve skills needed in the short term
  • 7.
    – Being necessaryto fill gap in the past performance – To change or correct long-held attitudes of employee
  • 8.
    – To increasethe productivity and quality of the work. – To motivate employees and to promote employee loyalty
  • 9.
    • Assist eachemployee to improve performance in his/her position. • Assist each employee to acquire personal and professional abilities that maximize the possibility of career advancement.
  • 10.
    v e s / P u r p o s e • To increaseemployee productivity. • To ensure safe and effective patient care by nurses. • To ensure satisfactory job performance by personnel.
  • 11.
    • To orientthe personnel to job duties, policies, and agency regulations. • To help employees cope with new practice role.
  • 12.
    PRINCIPLES INVOLVED IN STAFFDEVELOPMENT: • Activities must be based on needs and interest of employees and organization. • Learning is combination of theory and practical.
  • 13.
    PRINCIPLES INVOLVED STAFF DEVELOPMENT: •Learning involves changes in behaviour • Problem solving approach is well suited because; effective learning takes place when there is need/problem
  • 14.
    PRINCIPLES INVOLVED STAFF DEVELOPMENT: •Teaching – learning should be based on educational principles. • Learning is active process i.e., teacher and learner should be active in learning.
  • 15.
    Types of staffdevelopment:- Induction training Job orientation In-service education Continuing education
  • 16.
    Induction training:- • Itis a brief, standardised introduction to an agency’s philosophy, purpose, policies and regulations given to each worker during her or his first 2 or 3 days of employment in order to ensure his or her identification with agency’s philosophy, goals and norms.
  • 17.
    Need of inductiontraining:- • Increased retention of newly hire employees, • Improved employee morale • Increased productivity.
  • 18.
    Steps in induction:- 1.Tour of faculties 2. Introduction to the other employees, superiors and subordinates. 3. Description of organizational functions. 4. Departmental visit
  • 19.
    Job orientation:- • Itis an individualised training programme intended to acquaint a newly hired employee with job responsibilities, work place, clients and co-workers. • The process of creating awareness with an individual of his/her roles, responsibilities and relationships in the new work situation. (2- 24weeks)
  • 20.
    Types of orientation:- Generalorientation Specific orientation
  • 21.
    Importance of orientationprogramme • Provides essential, relevant and necessary information . • Helps employee to gain confidence. • Lessen the time for the employee to learn about new situations related to his/her job setting.
  • 22.
    • Helps thenew employee to develop a sense of belonging. • Eliminates : Learning by trail and error Passing of incorrect information by old employees and peers. Reduces misinterpretation Help new employee in solving initial problems and adjust the new situation/environment,
  • 23.
    Content of anorientation programme:- The organisation and its environment Policies, rules and regulation Personnel Functions to be undertaken
  • 24.
    In-service education:- Definition:- • In-serviceeducation is a planned learning experience provided by the employing agency for employees.
  • 25.
    In-service education:- Definition:-. • Inservice education is a planned educational experience provided in the job setting and closely identified with services in order to help person perform more effectively as a person and as a worker.
  • 26.
    Concept of in-serviceeducation:- • Closely identified with services • Help a person’s to improve performance effectively • Planned education activities • Provided in a job setting
  • 27.
    Need:- • Social changesand scientific advancement • Changes and advancement in the field of service. • Increased the demand of nursing services.
  • 28.
    Need:- • Consumer demandquality care. • Rapid changes in medical and nursing practice create a need for in service education.
  • 29.
    Aims:- • Improvement ofclient through upgrading the services rendered with scientific principles. • To keep in face in changing society to their needs. • Acquisition of new knowledge
  • 30.
    Aims:- • Improvement ofperformance • To develop specific skills required for practice. • To maintain high standards of nursing
  • 31.
    • To observeand bring change in staff members chances for promotion • It reduces turnover, absenteeism.
  • 32.
    TYPES CENTRALIZED IN-SERVICE TRAINING- •The in-service curriculum ought to formulated from and be conducted by nursing personnel in the central administration of the agency. • None of the learners are consulted or participate in planning learning experiences and yet are expected to attend an in-service offering.
  • 33.
    Decentralized in-service education •It is planned by and conducted for the employees of one or more units. • The employees are expected to keep administration informed of their activities and possibly consult with administration when help is wanted
  • 34.
    Decentralized in-service education •employees are expected to develop and direct their own learning experiences. • In this approach, control in planning for an in- service is a responsibility of employees and the qualities which are valued more are self direction, initiative and participation.
  • 35.
    Combined in-service approach- •In this, the higher nursing authorities and all staff proposed programme of education. • They plan, conduct and evaluate the programme and further plan their programme basing on the need arises.
  • 36.
    Steps in in-serviceeducation:- • Assessment: • Pinpoint needs, • prioritize needs, • set training objectives, • develop criteria
  • 37.
    Steps in in-serviceeducation:- • Implementation: • pre test to the participants, • Actual conduction of training with ongoing monitoring
  • 38.
    • Evaluation: • posttest following completion of the training or program. • Observation on transfer of learning to the job • follow up studies for assessment of extent of retention of learning.
  • 39.
    Continuing education:- • “Continuingeducation is all the learning activities that occur after an individual has completed his/her basic education.” (COOPER) • “The education which builds on previous education.” (SHANON)
  • 40.
    Need for continuingeducation:- • To ensure safe and effective nursing care as nurses need to keep abreast with knowledge and technical advances. • To develop the nurses’ by updating their knowledge and prepare them for specialization.
  • 41.
    • For careeradvancement. • With the advancement of technology, new role change takes place and to play those roles, education is required. • To acquire special skills.
  • 42.
    Functions of continuingeducation:- • To meet the health needs and public expectations. • To develop the practicing abilities of the nurse. • To recognize gaps in knowledge.
  • 43.
    • To maintainthe academic standards. • To provide opportunities for educational growth. • To maintain the roles as bed side nurses and to assume more supervisor, administrative to specialize and to generalize the practice.
  • 44.
  • 45.
    Steps of staffdevelopment program:- • Assess the educational needs of all staff members • Set priority • Develop general objectives for the staff development program • Determine the resources needed to reach the desired objectives
  • 46.
    Steps of staffdevelopment program:- • Develop a master calendar for an entire programme • Develop and maintain staff development record system • Establish files on major educational topics • Regularly evaluate the staff development program
  • 47.
    Staff development model •The model includes assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation
  • 48.
    Assessment Learner’s readiness to learn Learning needs, skills/ ability/knowl edge Planning Finding resources Matching needsand methods. Implementation Learners Educators Materials Methods Evaluation Achievement Transfer of learning
  • 49.
    Assessment • Assessment includeslearner’s readiness to learn and his specific learning needs such as skill, ability or knowledge. • educational needs can be based on organizational goal.
  • 50.
    Assessment • In thisway staff development programs are used in the most cost-effective and efficient way.
  • 51.
    Planning- • involves obtaininglearning resource to present to the learner and then matching learning needs with educational methods. • The staff development or education department may use a variety of media for example television, computer assisted instructions etc.
  • 52.
    Planning- Three main questionsshould be considered during assessment and planning : • Can the learner do what is required? • How should the staff development program be arranged to facilitate learning? • What can be done to ensure that what is learned will be transferred to the job?
  • 53.
    Implementation • implementation isthe gathering together of the educator, learner and all of the material and methods needed for the education program and actualization of plan.
  • 54.
    Evaluation • an investigativeprocess to determine • whether the education was cost-effective, • whether the objective was achieved and • whether learning was transferred from the learning site to actual use on the job.
  • 55.
    Evaluation • The purposeis to determine whether the education program has a positive effect on day to day operating problems and to identify elements of the program that need improvement.
  • 56.
    BENEFITS OF STAFF DEVELOPMENT: Forthe employees: • Leads to improved professional practice • Aids in updating knowledge and skills at all levels of organization • Keeps abreast of the latest trends and developments in techniques
  • 57.
    BENEFITS OF STAFF DEVELOPMENT: Forthe employees: • Equips with knowledge of current research and developments • Helps to learn new and to maintain old competencies
  • 58.
    BENEFITS OF STAFF DEVELOPMENT: Forthe organizations/employer: • Keeps staff enthusiastic in their learning • Develop interest and job satisfaction amongst the staff • Develops the sense of responsibilities
  • 59.
    BENEFITS OF STAFF DEVELOPMENT: Forthe organizations/employer: • Creates an appropriate environment for sound decisions as well as using effective problem solving techniques. • Helps to adjust to change • Aids in developing leadership skills, motivation and better attitudes
  • 60.
    BENEFITS OF STAFF DEVELOPMENT: Forthe organizations/employer: • Aids in encouraging and achieving self development and self confidence • Makes the organization a better place to worker
  • 61.
    Methods of deliveringstaff development programme:- Induction Physical tour of the faculties Group discussion Seminar Hand book and pamphlet
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