Staff Development
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Outcomes achieved from organizational investment in nursing continuing professional development.

29 Sep 2009 Healthcare leaders invest in knowledge and skill development of nurses through continuing professional development activities with the objectives of retaining a competent workforce, ensuring the provision of quality patient care, and promoting the ... Read more...

Career mapping: developing nurse leaders, reinvigorating careers.

29 Sep 2009 Nurse leaders must ensure the continued development and learning of all nurses, including those who postpone participation in existing professional development activities. In this article, the authors describe a career mapping program for nurses who ... Read more...

Enhancing peer support for pre-registration students.

30 Aug 2009 This article describes an innovation in one university in the south east of England designed to promote group identity and develop peer support among child branch nursing students. The innovation consisted of bringing all child branch students to ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Staff Development'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Creating leaders for the future. 30 Oct 2009
• Outcomes achieved from organizational investment in nursing continuing professional development. 29 Sep 2009
• Career mapping: developing nurse leaders, reinvigorating careers. 29 Sep 2009
• Introductory biology: let's train lecturers. 9 Sep 2009
• Ministry leadership formation: engaging with leaders. Four years into the program, participants report positive results. 30 Aug 2009
• Forming leaders: handing on the tradition. 30 Aug 2009
• Enhancing peer support for pre-registration students. 30 Aug 2009
• Patient safety is improved by early training. 30 Jul 2009
• Serious games and perioperative nursing. 30 Jul 2009
• Building capacity for evidence-based practice in the health promotion workforce: evaluation of a train-the-trainer initiative in NSW. 30 Jul 2009
• Development of a competency framework for nurse managers in Ireland. 30 Jul 2009
• Time for leadership development interventions in the public health nutrition workforce. 30 Jul 2009
• The nurse manager: the neglected middle. 30 Jul 2009
• Reducing health disparities through a culturally centered mentorship program for minority faculty: the Southwest Addictions Research Group (SARG) experience. 30 Jul 2009
• Methodology and outcomes of a family medicine research fellowship. 30 Jul 2009
• Developing a peer assessment of lecturing instrument: lessons learned. 30 Jul 2009
• Strategies for creating a faculty fellowship in medical education: report of a 10-year experience. 30 Jul 2009
• The personal and professional impact of a fellowship in medical education. 30 Jul 2009
• Vitality and teamwork. 30 Jul 2009
• From construction workers to architects: developing scientific research capacity in low-income countries. 19 Jul 2009

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Technical information about 'Staff Development'

Definition: The process by which the employer promotes staff performance and efficiency consistent with management goals and objectives.

Descriptor UI: D013192

Alternative terms: Staff Development; Development, Staff; Human Resources Development; Development, Human Resources; Resources Development, Human; Cross-Training, Employee; Cross Training, Employee; Employee Cross-Training;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; supply & distribution; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: I02.574.700; N04.452.677.822;

History Note: 91(86); was see under PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT 1986-90