Nearly a decade ago I went to school to become a Licensed Practicing Nurse(LPN). It was a pathway to a much-needed career change.\u00a0 It involved a thirteen-month program where I trained to become a nurse. It was months of classwork and trainings on various procedures as well as test taking skills. The goal of the program.. train the students to be competent and safe nurses that could pass the NCLEX exam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The school utilized a check-offs system. We received training on a certain procedure and then we had to perform said procedure on a manikin while pretending it was an actual patient. We, the students, had to be successfully \u201cchecked-off\u201d before we could perform any of the skills in the clinic setting on actual patient. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019ll never forget feeling more unprepared then when I took my first nursing job. I felt so under prepared because most of my training had been on a manikin or during my short preceptorship. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The worse onboard\/training I received was at my first nursing job. I had done my preceptorship at this facility and was assured that I would still received a solid 30 days of onboarding and training; however, that was not the case. I think I was running my own floor within a weak.\u00a0 Certainly not ideal for a new nurse and\/or patients.\u00a0 I training on the go. Though I learned a lot from this experience it was awful. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It wasn\u2019t until a couple years later; I was hired at a different company where the on-boarding process took several months to allow for appropriate training. It was not until this new position I realized the value of good training and appropriate onboarding because I didn’t know what that looked like. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In nursing training is vital to safe patient care. If a nurse can\u2019t place a catheter properly or change a dressing properly, they are putting their patient at risk for infection and an adverse event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As the article \u201cYour New Hires Wont Succeed Unless you Onboard them Properly\u201d explains that onboarding supports new hires through social and professional support which not only helps the new hire feel welcome and supported but reduces new hire turn over.\u00a0 The article references a study that 17% of new hires are lost during their first 90 days (Ellis et al., 2017) highlighting the importance of appropriate onboarding and training.\u00a0 The article also states that appropriate onboarding improves skills, knowledge and job satisfaction which leads to measurable improvements like profit growth (Ellis et al., 2017).\u00a0In nursing this could mean better patient outcomes. For example, fever infections. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Personally, I can attest to the importance of appropriate onboarding and training as in the healthcare setting it can positively and\/or negatively impact patient outcomes.\u00a0 \u00a0If nurses are not trained properly, patients health is in jeopardy and organizations risk losing good nurses.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The best training I ever received was hands on training under the supervision of a qualified preceptor.\u00a0 The worst training I received was training in the Skill Setting where I was not given my full 30 days of training before running the floor alone. \u00a0 The best training involved watching and then performing the skills under careful supervision before I was allowed to care for patients without a preceptor. I felt empowered, valued, and prepared to provide safe and quality patient care. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ultimately, training and onboarding are very important and valuable. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ellis, A., Nifadkar, S. T. N. B., and Berrin Erdogan, Bauer, T., & Erdogan, B. (2017). Your New Hires Won\u2019t Succeed Unless You Onboard Them Properly<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nearly a decade ago I went to school to become a Licensed Practicing Nurse(LPN). It was a pathway to a much-needed career change.\u00a0 It involved a thirteen-month program where I trained to become a nurse. It was months of classwork and trainings on various procedures as well as test taking skills. The goal of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/vanr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/vanr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/vanr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/vanr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/vanr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/vanr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/vanr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/vanr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/vanr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/vanr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}