Welcome to the new jnsdonline.com We’re delighted that you have chosen to explore this site. We’ve tried to design the site to be useful as well as easy to navigate. We hope you will find everything you need to enhance your staff development practice, whether you’re a novice or an expert…or somewhere in between.
Our Featured Articles this issue deal with some “real time” problems experienced by staff development specialists in a variety of settings. Many workplaces are experiencing an influx of Generation Y nurses and instructors in orientation programs and unit staff are asking for help in assimilating these new grads into the workplace. Dr. Lavoie-Tremblay and her colleagues provide advice about integrating these nurses.
Have you ever wondered about the impact on practice of what you teach? Cindy Sayre and her co-authors studied the effect of a certification review course on subsequent practice. I think you’ll find the results interesting and applicable to your own nursing professional development practice.
Finally, the nursing shortage has required hospitals and other healthcare facilities to employ nurses from a variety of countries and staff development specialists report difficulty in “on-boarding” these individuals. Mary Boylston describes how a university and a healthcare system partnered to overcome the obstacles to orientation of Korean Nurses – lessons that can be applied in orientation of nurses from other countries as well.
This issue of JNSD also contains a new Department titled, Consider This…, which features ideas that may be of use to staff development educators seeking to solve problems and issues in their practice. Each contribution to the Department features a successful approach that may be replicated in another staff development setting. We will include this Department in each issue of the journal where we have a useful idea to share.
Coming Soon lists articles to be published in future issues. And the very first of our Topical Collections features the Helen Tobin Award Winners and the articles for which they received the award.
Let me know what else you’d like to see on these pages. Our goal is to meet your needs for up-to-date, timely, and relevant information for the professional development specialist – you! Let me know how we’re doing.
Belinda E. Puetz, PhD, RN
Editor-in-Chief
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