Guide to Effective Staff Development in Health Care Organizations

Patrice L. Spath is a partner in Brown-Spath & Associates, a health care publishing and training company based in Forest Grove, Oregon. During the past twenty years, she has presented more than 350 educational programs on quality improvement, case management, medical error reduction, and outcomes management topics. A prolific writer, she has authored or edited more than 150 journal articles. Her book, Error Reduction in Health Care: A Systems Approach to Improving Patient Safety (Jossey-Bass, 2000) won wide acclaim and was a Doody's 250 Best Books of the Year Selection.

• Tables, Figures, and Exhibits. Foreword: James B. Conway. Preface. The Editor. The Contributors. Part One: The Learning Imperative. 1. Building the Context for Learning: An Executive Priority (Anthony J. DiBella). 2. An Organizational Model for Continuous Learning (Kathleen J. Heery). 3. The Learning Transformation Process ina Health Care System (Diane Boynton, Donald C. Sibery). Part Two: Training Issues. 4. Training Challenges in Health Care Organizations(Connie E. Kuykendall, Sally Zuel). 5. Selecting Appropriate Training Methods (Brenda I. Mygrant, Mary Carole McMann). 6. Training the Adult Learner in Health CareOrganizations (Donna J. Slovensky, Pamela E. Paustian). 7. Measuring the Organizational Impact ofTraining Programs (Richard J. Wagner, Robert Weigand). 8. Making the Most of Your Training Dollar (Patrice L. Spath). Part Three: Training Solutions: Case Studies. 9. Nurse Scrub Training Program DecreasesSurgery Costs (Christina Dempsey). 10. Web-Based Training Expands Coding Educationin a Large Health Care System (Gloryanne Bryant, Claire R. Dixon-Lee). 11. On-Target Education Program Meets TrainingNeeds of Surgical Services (Alice T. Speers, Karen L. Zaglaniczny, Christine S. Zambricki). 12. Education Collaborative Augments Staff Trainingin Northern California Hospitals (Rebecca Petersen). Glossary: The Language of Learning. Index.