Staff Development Programme
Staff development is the process directed towards the personal and professional growth of the nurses and other personnel while they are employed by a health care agency.
The staff development programme supports faculty development by providing partial or full reimbursement of the cost of courses, seminars and workshops that enable faculty to improve performance in current jobs, prepare for career development, or meet requirement of degree programs related to current performance or planned career development.
This can be viewed as the activities and programs (formal or informal and on or off campus) that helps staff members learn about responsibilities, develop required skills and competencies necessary to accomplish institutional and divisional goals and purposes, and grow personally and professionally to prepare themselves for advancement in the institution or beyond the campus.
The objectives of SDP should be directed towards,
- Clarify expectations for the continued professional education of each staff member
- Specify the options available for staff improvement
- Make clear the between continuous professional development and institution rewards.
- Purposefully determine staff development activities based upon a careful assessment of staff member needs.
- Employ accepted methods of teaching and learning in staff development activities.
In this regard, we VNCW staff members conducting SDP regularly. Each faculty members will be presenting the topic by rotationally every month.
Journal Club Presentation
JCP is a group of individual who meet regularly to critically evaluate recent articles in the academic literature to promote critical thinking skills, dissemination of scientific information and generate novel research ideas, our faculty members are presenting a journals or research articles in order to evaluate and updating the knowledge in recent trends in nursing education, nursing administration, practice and nursing research.
- Topics for SDP
- DOTS
- Partosram
- Neonatel Resuscitation
- Bladder mx after spinal surgery
- Gene theraphy
- Prevention & Medical Errors
- Palliative care
- Chest tube management.
- CPR
- Home care management of CVA patient
- ART (assisted reproductive technologies)
- Enterostomal care
| TOPIC | DATE |
| Oxygen Administration | June |
| Stiz Bath | July |
| Blood Transfusion | August |
| Gastric Lavage | September |
| Epitaxis Management | October |
| Intravenous Injection | November |
| Intradermal Injection | December |
| Episiotomy Care | January |
| Newborn Assessment | February |
| Restraints | March |
| Subcutaneous Injection | April |
| Endotracheal Tube Insertion | May |