STAFF

DEVELOPMENT

ABDO,DELAL
DEFINITION

• Staff development includes all training and

education undertaken by an employer to
improve the occupational and personal
knowledge, skills, and attitudes of employment
OBJECTIVES
• To improve productivity and to assist the nurses
to improve her performance.
• Assist each employee to acquire personal and
professional abilities.
• To ensure safe and effective patient care by
nurses.
• To ensure job satisfaction.
• To help employee cope with new practice.
TYPES OF STAFF
DEVELOPMENT
• Induction Training
• Job Orientation
• In-Service Education
• Continuing Education
• Training for Special Function
I N DUC TI O N T R A I N I N G
• is a brief, standardized indoctrination to
an agency’s philosophy, purposes,
policies and regulation given to each
worker
FORMS OF INDUCTION

• Internship – works as an exchange of services for

experience between the students and his or her employer

• Pre ceptorship – a short term relationship between a

student as novice and an experienced staff person
professional who provides individual attention to the
student’s learning needs and feedback regarding
performance
Mentorship.
programs offered to support in program completion,
confidence building and transitioning to further education or
the workforce.
JOB ORIENTATION

The process of creating awareness with an individual of

his/her roles, responsibilities and relationships in the new
work situation
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
STEPS IN IN-SERVICE
EDUCATION
• Assessment: Pinpoint needs, prioritize needs, set training
objectives, and develop criteria
• Implementation: actual conduction of training with
ongoing monitoring

• Evaluation: Establishment of criteria, pre test to the

participants, post test following completion of the training
or program.
CONTINUING
EDUCATION
“Continuing education is all the learning activities that occur
after an individual has completed his/her basic education.”
TRAINING FOR
SPECIFIC FUNCTION
This is concerned with developing expert technical or manual
skills, communication and helps the personnel to perform
their functions effectively.
GUIDELINES FOR
SKILL TRAINING
1.Set the stage, using equipment similar to that provided for
the worker in the work situation
. 2.Create in worker a learning attitude
3.Give reasons why the procedure is carried out in this way
in this agency
4.Break the activities in to logical steps, necessary to carry
out the procedure. Demonstrate step by step.
5.Make certain that the person has learnt by requiring a
return demonstration
6. Provide written out lines for references.
7. Arrange for follow up
POTENTIAL DIFFICULTIES IN STAFF
DEVELOPMENT & TRAINING
ACTIVITIES
Lack of time
Inadequate resources at disposal
Under-funded training budgets
Conflicting priorities
Lack of Clarity about what should be done Failure to identify,
or accept the need.
Shortfall in training skill or experience Fear that trained
employee will leave the organization or will be poached by
competitor.