This course presents why it is essential for administrators to train staff and provides valuable techniques to successfully train diverse adult learners. It offers instructional methods that can be used to present content in a variety of ways. This course is designed to help prepare trainers to use various strategies based on knowledge of the importance of and the challenges inherent to providing staff training, recommended topics, learning types and styles, and effective teaching strategies. The goal of this educational program is to provide Administrators in any setting with guidelines for providing training.
This educational offering is approved by the California Nursing Home Administrator Program (NHAP) for full credit as a course relating directly to duties, functions, or responsibilities of the nursing home administrator. Provider # CEP 1701; Course Approval # 1701001-8641. This activity is approved for 1.0000 contact hours.
Florida Board of Nursing Home Administrators (CEBroker Provider # 50-290)
Georgia Nursing Home Administrators Board (CEBroker Provider # 50-290)
Outline:
Section 1: Introduction
About This Course
Learning Objectives
Section 2: Why Training is Important
The Importance of Staff Training
Training Topics
Training Topics for Post-Acute Care
Review
Summary
Section 3: Adult Learners and Challenges of Training
Adult Learners
Challenges
Facing the Challenges
Review
Summary
Section 4: Types of Learning
Learning Types
Bloom’s Taxonomy
Using Bloom’s
Learning Styles
Your Style
Visual Style
Auditory Style
Kinesthetic Style
Review
Summary
Section 5: Teaching Strategies
Principles for Training Adults
Unstructured vs. Structured Training
Job Task Analysis
The Training Environment
The Process
Training Formats
Training Mistakes
Final Strategies
Review
Summary
Section 6: Conclusion
Summary
Course Contributor
References
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Jennifer has over 30 years of clinical and teaching experience, and her areas of expertise are critical care and home health. She is certified as an OASIS Specialist- Clinical (COS-C) and is a Curriculum Designer in post-acute care for Relias. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from The University of Virginia in 1993 and her Master of Science in Nursing from The University of North Carolina, Greensboro in 1996. Her professional practice in education is guided by a philosophy borrowed from Florence Nightingale’s Notes on Nursing, “I do not pretend to teach her how, I ask her to teach herself, and for this purpose, I venture to give her some hints.”
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