Thursday's MDMLG meeting was very good. Marilyn and company did a wonderful job putting together an informative and interesting discussion.
The general business meeting ran quicker than expected so I decided to end the meeting with a discussion session on issues the meeting attendees wanted to discuss. There was some wonderful topics brought up and I wanted to give the rest of the membership a chance to participate. Therefor I've created posts on a couple of topics discussed at the meeting and I'd like to encourage everyone to add their thoughts by adding comments. After discussion has died down I think I'd like to repost with all the additional information and perhaps we can even add our discussion to the new HLS-Wiki.
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
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The topic I raised was how to provide learning opportunities for nurses concerning literature searching for nursing research articles. As evidence-based practice and the magnet hospital ideal are being promoted, the requirements for increasing non-medical skills for nurses is also being demanded. The need to obtain 3 to 7 nursing research articles to fullfil advancement/competency criteria is the goal, but the barriers revolve around how to relieve nurses of floor duties for the 45 minutes or so the instruction will take. As a result of Nursing Education requests, we have scheduled and prepared for classes across our system, with 0 to 3 participants showing up per class and of those, many only have 5-10 minutes to try to learn nursing research or what criterias are essential. Some don't even know how to use computers.
There is a push for online tutorials, but I feel these are best used when there is a bit of groundwork/background given on the basics.
We do attempt to teach individually, if they run into issues when in the library, but now this is system-wide we do not have the staff or time to provide one-on-one training for everyone. What are other hospitals doing to assist Nursing Education w/this issue?
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