Importance Of Learning In The Workplace

Assignment

Introduction

Patients’ needs and care environments are becoming more complex and it demands nurses to attain requisite competencies to deliver a high quality care. These increasing demands can be entertained educating them in new ways. The nurses who are able practice across multi specialties are demand of time.

This paper discusses the set of methods and practices by which healthcare sector workers particularly nurses learn while working in hospitals and what are the needs of their continuous education and training through learning in workplace?

The paper examine the nature of workplace and work performed by nurses, the need for continuous development regarding education and training, current methods and

Individual learning occurred through reflection about subjects learned by applicability and congruence with work challenges. (Fraser, 2006) adult learning is influenced by routine exercise of activities and social interaction in the work place in non-academic contexts. (Downing, 2000)

As patients are reporting complicated needs the healthcare environment is also becoming more complex. Innovations in health sector are complex and dynamic (Burke & Menachemi, 2004) but this innovation and change process in hospitals is affected by learning strategies and competencies of employees. (Jaana, Ward, Pare & Sicotte, 2006) International council of nurses describes nursing as an autonomous and collaborative care of individuals by prevention of illness, facilitation of healing, protection, promotion and optimization of health and abilities. Not only treating patients, helping doctors diagnosing patients and paperwork is all what nurses are supposed to do but offering advice and emotional support to patients is also a part of nurses’ job.

Nurses do need continuous training and education:

• To be highly skilled in consistently changing

Ratio of instructor to student is approximately 10:1. Clinical instruction is that clinical experience that occurs once per week for eight hours or twice per week for four hours in the hospital settings. Clinical instruction is integral part of most of nursing courses which offer workplace learning. In clinical instruction teacher-centered approach is practiced and major focus is on group learning. Instructor makes sure that all trainees are highly engaged, at some level, in patient care. Instructor made one student to perform a procedure and ask other students to observe the procedure but this all can be done with consent of patients. Too often two students are made to take care of one patient who has diagnosis that meets teaching objectives. Education can only be developed if clinical practice also develops because they both are closely linked. (Chapman,