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Designing Nursing Orientation: Evidence-Based Strategies for Effective Programs   
Adrianne E. Avillion, D.Ed., RN

Softbound Book + companion CD-ROM  
Size: 8.5" x 11" book plus CD-ROM
Includes 3 Nursing Contact Hours
ISBN 1578398142
978-1578398140
HCPro
June 2006
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Designing Nursing Orientation gives you all the tools needed to design an evidence-based orientation program. In fact, you’ll get everything you need to streamline the orientation process and make it work successfully for your organization.

Design a program that’s right for you and your facility with the customizable tools included in this resource package. Whether you’re looking to create a brand-new program or revamp an existing one, Designing Nursing Orientation will help staff educators to design the most effective program for any institution.

You need a streamlined, efficient, adaptable orientation program. Each nurse has a unique learning style and competency level, so creating a program that is flexible enough to meet all of their varied needs just isn’t that simple. In her new book, Designing Nursing Orientation: Evidence-Based Strategies for Effective Programs, staff development expert Adrianne E. Avillion, D.Ed., RN, provides the program-building resources you’ll need. These include:

  • practical tips

  • tools to calculate effectiveness

  • handouts

  • checklists

  • sample evaluations

This book comes with a CD-ROM full of ready-to-use tools and checklists to guide you through the design and implementation of a cost-efficient program that will meet all your needs. With these tools at your finger tips, you’ll begin applying the concepts in the book immediately. Easy-to-use tools help put your plan into action quickly.

Earn 3 Nursing Contact Hours! HCPro is accredited as a provider of continuing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center Commission on Accreditation.

Navigate your way through the orientation process with these resources. Staff development specialists are often pressed to provide orientation more often, more efficiently, more quickly, and more effectively. A thorough and efficient orientation is critical to staff retention. Poorly oriented staff struggle to do their jobs.

Learn how to use evidence to evaluate cost efficiency and return on investment, justify change, and evaluate your program’s effectiveness. Rather than focusing on just one area of care, Designing Nursing Orientation empowers educators from all types of facilities to determine the effectiveness of their orientation model and the steps needed to refine it. Once your program is up and running, Designing Nursing Orientation gives you the useful strategies and forms you need to evaluate the impact of your plan on staff and facility. Take a look at what’s inside:

  • 21st-century healthcare expectations and their impact on staff development

    • The evolution of orientation

    • Statistical update: What the numbers are telling us

    • The impact of 21st-century healthcare expectations

  • Analyzing your orientation program

    • Cost

    • Cost efficiency of the staff development department

    • Variations in learning styles

    • Paradigm shift: Setting

    • Paradigm shift: Meeting the needs of four generations of learners

    • Paradigm shift: Aging of healthcare professionals

    • Paradigm shift: From preceptor to mentor and beyond

    • Paradigm shift: Evidence-based surveys: Satisfaction with orientation

  • Implementing evidence-based orientation

    • Justifying change

    • Redesigning your orientation program

    • Tips for revising program components

    • Tips for initiating a mentor and/or residency program

  • Evaluating the effectiveness of evidence-based orientation

    • Is “happiness” still important?

    • Measuring evidence-based learning

    • Measuring application of knowledge

    • Measuring impact on retention and job performance

    • Measuring return on investment

This educational activity for 3 nursing contact hours is provided by HCPro, Inc. Every unit in your hospital will thrive when nurses are well-acclimated and happy to be there. For the CEUs, you achieve these learning objectives:

  • Identify 21st-century healthcare expectations and the impact of these expectations on the practice of staff development.

  • Analyze the efficiency of your orientation program and identify areas for improvement.

  • Utilize analysis data to implement evidence-based orientation components.

  • Evaluate the effectiveness of evidence-based orientation programs.

Adrianne E. Avillion, D.Ed., RN, is the president and owner of Avillion’s Curriculum Design in York, PA. She specializes in designing continuing education programs for healthcare professionals and freelance medical writing. She has published extensively, including serving as editor of the first and second editions of The Core Curriculum for Staff Development. Avillion holds a master’s degree in nursing and a doctorate in adult education from Penn State University.

With more than 18 years of experience, HCPro, Inc. is a leading provider of integrated information, education, training, and consulting products and services in the vital areas of healthcare regulation and compliance. The company's mission is to meet the specialized informational, advisory, and educational needs of the healthcare industry. As an acknowledged industry authority in healthcare regulation and compliance, HCPro focuses on providing its clients assistance and expertise in the areas of accreditation, medical staff affairs, credentialing, privileging, medical record management, regulatory compliance, nursing, quality/patient safety, infection control, and workplace safety.

(information from the publisher)

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