Question

The answer should be at least 350 words in length

For the process of developing staff, construct a chart showing the pros and cons of the following:

a. Education

b. Preceptorship/mentorship

c. Small projects

In which type of setting would the above methods be most beneficial? Most cost-effective? Simplest to implement?

Answer 1

STAFF DEVELOPMENT PROCESS

Is the overall development of an individual nurse to an efficient team member in order to provide quality health care, it includes orientaion, inservice education and continuing education. In each level specific methods and techniques are used.

Education: includes theorectical and practical training provided to nurses to develop their knowledge, attitude and skills.

Preceptorship/ mentorship: preceptor or mentor is a trainer who helps nurses to orient, teach and improve their skills in a specific clinical setting

Small projects: conducts studies to find out solutions for the problems in the field of nursing

	pros	cons	setting
Education	Effective in teaching methods for new nurses in the hospitals to teach basics of nursing care, vision and mission of the hospitals, disease conditions, policies and protocols of the hospital or specific health care setting. It helps to develop, knowledge, attitude and skills and morals to provide high quality nursing care. this method can be useful in inservice education programmes and implementing new advancement in nursing.	Need seperate physical setting, study materials and time schedules. Theortical classes become boredom for staff, and most of the staff nurse felt difficulty to attend this programmes because of patient assignment.	Induction training: most cost effective and beneficial, large numbers can be included in short time span. Helpful in staff orientation
perceptionship/ mentorship	Nurse develops attitude and skills essential for patient care, learns directly from live situations, so the nurse will be able to clear her doubts in the initial stage,mentor can monitor the mentee continously and plan a one to one training. It is helpful in assinging task according to the capality of each staff nurses.	Needed good interpersonal relationship. Mentor should be knowledgable with good observation and communication skills, Human errors can occur and mentor can negatively influence the mentee which will result in poor goal achievement.	Clinical setting (ICU, wards): teaching happens naturaly, only one or two mentors are needed for each area, so cost effective and beneficial
small projects	Helpful to develop evidence based practices in nursing and develop a strong body of knowledge, it is needed to provide rational explanations for each nursing plan of care. improve coordination, communication, decision making and rational thinking. Also helps to find out solutions for matters concerns patient care, effectiveness of newly implemented or ongoing techniques and policies.	Nurse with good idea of resarch methology is needed. Time consuming process needs more efforts and skills. specific orientation to tools and methods and not cost effective in staff nrses. sometimes difficult to implement the finding due to lack of support from top level managers.	Nursing administration level: helpful in formulation of policies, protocols, evidenced based nursing care plans and team building.

Each methods are effective in a specific area of nursing field. So implementing in a correct manner is helpful for the overall development of nursing profession.