HCPro.com: The Staff Educator

October 2008 (Volume 4, Issue 10)	view entire issue

Cultural competence for the diverse population
The rapidly changing U.S. population is exemplified within your hospital’s walls. With patients and staff members from different cultural, linguistic, and religious backgrounds, training nurses to be culturally competent and stressing the importance of this growing matter is crucial to providing safe, equitable patient care.

Prep your nurses for Joint Commission surveyors
Priming staff members for inevitable Joint Commission visits is one of the most daunting tasks for educators, who are continually on the lookout for effective training methods to convey the information your nurses will need when questioned by surveyors. With a proven, multifaceted training program under their belts, educators at a Rhode Island hospital are anxious to share the secrets of their survey prep success.

Other recently-published articles from The Staff Educator:

Train your learners about time management

Provide effective feedback to your nurses

Match new nurses with the right job

Cultural competence for the diverse population

Prep your nurses for Joint Commission surveyors

Step up nurse-patient interactions

Coping with challenging learners

Retaining the wisdom of the mature educator

Rewarding your gatekeepers

Project management pointers to develop staff leaders

Keep your nurses calm and collected

Surviving skill sets with a competency fair

Recognize, reward, and retain at your organization

Connect the dots with concept mapping

Improve active listening with this game-based strategy

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