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Editor-in-Chief: Belinda E. Puetz, PhD, RN
ISSN: 1098-7886
Online ISSN: 1538-9049
Frequency: 6 issues / year
From the Editor

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
bepuetz@aol.com
Mobile: 850-501-2860

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Coming Soon

This section lists articles that will be published in upcoming issues of JNSD.  Note the Volume and Issue Number in parentheses (e.g., 26.2 means Volume 26, Number 2, or 2010, the March/April issue).

  • Challenges in Healthcare Education: A correlational study of outcomes using two learning techniques, Karen Ray (26.2)
  • Development and Implementation of an Independence Rating Scale and Evaluation Process for Nursing Orientation of New Graduates, Gregory Durkin (26.2)
  • The Use of Peer Review in Nursing Education and Clinical Practice, Heidi Boehm and Wanda Bonnel (26.3)
  • Podcasting: Making Waves in Millennial Education, Susan Rand Long and Pamela B. Edwards (26.3)
  • Simulation: Learning from Mistakes while Building Teamwork and Communication, Christina Kuehster  and Carla D. Hall (26.3)
  • Self-efficacy based training for research literature appraisal: A competency for evidence-based practice, Teri Lynn Kiss, Maureen O’Malley, and Thomas J. Hendrix (26.4)
  • A novel approach to improving current research awareness: A web-based nursing research journal watch, Linda Bucher, Amy Mackley, Thea Eckman, and Barbara Henry (26.5)
  • Performance, Satisfaction, and Transition into Practice of Graduates of Accelerated Nursing Programs, Marilyn Oermann, Mimi T. Alvarez, Rita O’Sullivan, and Beverly B. Foster (26.6)
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National Nursing Staff Development Organization

20th Anniversary SupplementThe idea for a national specialty organization for staff development educators originated exclusively in 1985 when Belinda Puetz founded the Journal of Nursing Staff Development, then a quarterly publication of the J.B. Lippincott Co. The success of the journal led a group of nursing staff development educators to convene in Minneapolis in 1988 to discuss starting a specialty nursing organization for themselves and their colleagues in this specialty area of practice. 

Read about the National Nursing Staff Development Organization's 20 year history.