A Balcain, B L Lendrum, P Bowler, J Doucette, M Maskell
{"title":"Action research applied to a preceptorship program.","authors":"A Balcain, B L Lendrum, P Bowler, J Doucette, M Maskell","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this article the authors describe the development of a framework designed to discuss expectations between preceptors, orientees, nursing unit managers and clinical nurse educators. Action research theory provided the framework for this process. Preceptors found the process of articulating expectations helpful, relevant, and meaningful to their practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":77218,"journal":{"name":"Journal of nursing staff development : JNSD","volume":"13 4","pages":"193-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20227385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An investigation into modification of personality hardiness in staff nurses.","authors":"M J Tierney, M Lavelle","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Responsibilities of nurse educators include assisting nurses to adjust to a rapidly changing healthcare environment and demonstrating how these efforts are effective. In this article, the authors describe a study that measures the effects of teaching hardiness, a characteristic encompassing commitment, control, and challenge, to newly employed hospital nurses. The authors believe the study results indicate that instruction in hardiness is possible and may have an impact on morale.</p>","PeriodicalId":77218,"journal":{"name":"Journal of nursing staff development : JNSD","volume":"13 4","pages":"212-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20228592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An innovative teaching strategy for staff development departments. Olga and Bertha to the rescue.","authors":"T Henderson, B Cumming","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Efforts to address facility-wide educational topics in one staff development department have resulted in the development of innovative strategies to reach the maximum number of nurses with the greatest positive outcome. We were faced with the challenge of trying to improve discharge planning. A random chart review completed by the hospital utilization coordinator showed an appalling lack of discharge planning on the part of most hospital nursing staff. How would we entice nurses to attend inservice programs concerning such a potentially \"dry\" topic? Enter Olga and Bertha Smith, two characters devised to inject humor and entertainment into the educational sessions. The characters were role played by the authors and videotaped to show a standard scenario that demonstrated the intricate discharge planning needs of a young single mother (Olga) and her dependent mother (Bertha). Evaluations revealed extremely positive feedback for the characters as an enjoyable and effective way of teaching. Since then, Olga and Bertha have attracted, entertained, and educated nurses about three subsequent inservice topics.</p>","PeriodicalId":77218,"journal":{"name":"Journal of nursing staff development : JNSD","volume":"13 4","pages":"183-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20227384","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transcultural nursing. A source guide.","authors":"P Y Mahon","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The concept of transcultural nursing is relatively new to the nursing literature. It had been less than 30 years since Madeleine Leininger first began to develop a theory of transcultural nursing as part of a doctoral study in anthropology. Much has changed in that time, and nursing staff development and inservice educators need to provide educational offerings within a multicultural context in a timely manner. Cultural diversity is the standard in the mid-1990s, and those nursing staff development programs that are sensitive to this fact produce employees with advantages over those from settings that do not prepare staff for practice in a constantly changing world. This annotated bibliography about transcultural nursing details key references for staff development and inservice programs. It is not intended as an exhaustive review but rather focuses on the most relevant, timely, and useful of the ever increasing number of publications concerning this important subject. Six major books and four of the most pertinent recent journal articles are included. Conclusions and implications for nursing staff educators are offered.</p>","PeriodicalId":77218,"journal":{"name":"Journal of nursing staff development : JNSD","volume":"13 4","pages":"218-22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20228594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Simulation game: a tool for staff development and its effects on staff behavioral outcomes.","authors":"M R Khazadian-Figueroa, E Johnson","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77218,"journal":{"name":"Journal of nursing staff development : JNSD","volume":"13 4","pages":"223-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20228597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Level of literacy in the nurses aide population. Baseline data for nursing staff development.","authors":"B A Benjamin","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A study of literacy levels of the nurses aide population working in selected acute-care hospitals showed that a literacy deficit existed, described the type and degree of the deficit, and determined its prevalence according to selected demographic factors. Implications for staff development educators in roles of orientation, inservice, and continuing education are discussed for this population in regard to current changes in healthcare delivery patterns.</p>","PeriodicalId":77218,"journal":{"name":"Journal of nursing staff development : JNSD","volume":"13 3","pages":"149-54"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20159917","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Using an outside consultant for staff development.","authors":"S A Williams","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this article the author describes the use of a nurse educator/clinical nurse specialist as an outside consultant to provide a program to educate staff nurses about oncology patient care. The continuing education program included a didactic and clinical practicum. The program provided nurses with specialized knowledge about an expanding patient population, improved the level of oncology patient care, and increased the confidence of the physicians and community members in the level of oncology nursing care.</p>","PeriodicalId":77218,"journal":{"name":"Journal of nursing staff development : JNSD","volume":"13 3","pages":"137-43"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20159836","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Implementing effective staff education about advance directives.","authors":"M DesRosiers, P Navin","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Patient Self-Determination Act of 1990 guarantees the right to refuse medical or surgical treatment and the right to draft advance directives. This review of the current literature provides those in nursing staff development and inservice education with an overview of advance directives and their implications for nursing education and practice. Possible core subjects for inclusion in planned, purposeful, advance directive education programs are examined, including cultural sensitivity, facilitator skills, interviewing techniques, legal information, patient autonomy, and reasoning and decision making. This review provides a platform for future research.</p>","PeriodicalId":77218,"journal":{"name":"Journal of nursing staff development : JNSD","volume":"13 3","pages":"126-30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20159912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pain, role play, and videotape. Pain management staff development in a community hospital.","authors":"E B Daroszewski, D A Meehan","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Videotaped role play was an effective staff development strategy used as an initial exercise in a five-part class to update the pain management skills of experienced nurses. It engaged the participants in learning and stimulated discussion and provided concrete feedback of current clinical practices for comparison with the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research pain management guidelines (Acute Pain Management Guideline Panel, 1992).</p>","PeriodicalId":77218,"journal":{"name":"Journal of nursing staff development : JNSD","volume":"13 3","pages":"119-24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20159916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}