Career Planning
A planned system of training and developing employees to acquire the skills necessary to manage people within an organization.
What is succession planning?
A beginner nurse in the Benner theory.
What is a Novice?
When the supply of RN's does not keep up with the demand.
What is a nursing shortage?
Nurses are expected to gain knowledge and increase expertise throughout their career.
What is a life-long learner?
When a health care facility requires staff to work beyond their scheduled shift(s), possibly threatening the staff member with abandonment.
What is mandatory Over time?
The responsible party(s) in employee career development.
Who are the employee and the organization?
An educational program offered by the hospital which strengthens the new graduate's skills and competencies, and prepares the nurse for the demands of caring for patients.
What are transition to practice programs or new graduate residencies?
A verbal interaction between a hiring manager and a prospective employee.
What is an interview?
Providing an educational program to ensure that the clinical staff is competent in a specific skill.
What is Training?
Minimum requirements for staffing ratios.
What is a state staffing mandate?
A document that aids the organization to select to screen applicants to fill job openings.
What is a resume?
According to Shirey (2009), the first phase of a nurse's career development.
What is the Promise stage?
Name 2 illegal questions in when interviewing a potential job applicant.
What is your marital status?
When were you born?
What is your financial status?
What is your religious affiliation?
What is your racial identifier?
An effective educational learning strategy for adult learners.
What is Andragogy or an adult learning theory?
The ability for a staff member to create their own work hours.
What is self-scheduling?
Career planning and development begins with this introspective process.
What is self assessment or reflection?
The activity that is the sole responsibility of the nurse for career management.
What are develop career goals?
After completing a job interview the interviewee should correspond with the hiring manager/interviewer in this manner.
What is send a thank you note?
An experienced nurse that volunteers to assist the new graduate by modeling, teaching and fostering a sense of competence.
What is a mentor?
Name 2 responsibilities of the nurse manager involving staffing to meet patient care needs.
What are fiscal responsibility and ethical duty?
One way for an experienced nurse to demonstrate advanced achievement of competencies.
What is a Professional Specialty Certification?
New graduates have many hurdles in the first year of employment. Name 2 benefits of having adequate support, direction, and education during this time frame.
What are:
Increased retention
Increased job satisfaction
Pursue Life long learning
Improved critical thinking skills
Recruitment is not the key to adequate, long term staffing. Providing a healthy work environment encourages this.
What is staff retention?
A theory that promotes a shared vision and collective learning within an organization.
What is a Learning Organization (LO)?
Senge (1994)
Method of calculating staffing needs which allows the manager to appropriately staff their unit within the budget, based on census.
What are NCH/PPD?