Nursing Staff Professional Development

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This paper describes instituting a system to provide the nursing staff with opportunities and conditional monetary incentives to obtain higher levels of professional development. The paper points out that providing the time and reimbursement to seek adult professional development will enable retaining and recruiting employees and will create a base staff with greater skills to meet the ultimate goal of excellent patient care. The paper also encourages creating tuition reimbursement contracts, which are offered to employees with more than one year employment. Thus, upon achievement of their educational goals and agreement upon a contract commitment to a certain number of years service following the completion of any degree or certificate, the nurses would be reimbursed by the employer.

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"Given the nature of the facility, with its overarching emphasis on psychosocial care and the nature of the growth in information in this area, seeking employees who are capable and willing to seek out cutting edge development associated with such care could be the determinant factor of success. Making those employees from those who are already committed to serve this facility would be the best possible solution to any perceived shortcomings. Conditional reimbursement frequently emphasizes time and success contracts that are best employed when the individual is offered support from the institution to allow growth."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Goodwin, Kristine. "States Tackle the Nursing Shortage: The Lack of Qualified Nurses Is Reaching Epidemic Proportions. States, Universities and Hospitals All Are Trying to Do Something about It." State Legislatures Oct.-Nov. 2002: 20.
• Knox, Kris Joseph, Eric C. Blankmeyer, and J.R. Stutzman. "Organizational Structure, Performance Quality and Administrative Compensation in Texas Nursing Facilities." Quarterly Journal of Business and Economics 40.1 (2001): 45.
• Ubokudom, Sunday E., James A. Woods, and Lorinda S. Schalk. "The Effects of Case-Mix Reimbursement on Ohio Medicaid Nursing Home Costs."
• Wilkinson, Reginald A. "The Bureau of Staff Enrichment: Employees Are Our Most Valuable Resource." Corrections Today June 2002: 84.

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