I appreciate everyone taking the time to watch my presentation. I apologize for my voice. I have been fighting a cold the last few days. I am on the verge of losing my voice! Thank you for bearing with me. Enjoy!
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I think a skills lab training is extremely beneficial! I worked in Endoscopy for 2 years and our GI lab also did not have a skills competency for orientees. They had yearly competency for all employees in the department but it was mostly on equipment such as the cauterizing machines, travel cart, and certain things we didn’t use very often. My orientation was 2 weeks but I didn’t take call for 6 months. Even then I still wasn’t comfortable with the different forceps and irrigation set up etc. A skills lab and check off would have been extremely beneficial and I would have felt much more confident. After 2 years of working in that department, I still never felt confident.
It is amazing how much knowledge needs to be there for all the different procedures in the GI lab! I had no idea before I started working there. We also have yearly check offs for all the different procedures and equipment for all staff. But if you are a new nurse to the department in Jan. and those check offs aren’t until July, then there is a huge gap there that needs to be closed for the new nurses.
Great presentation! I hope you are feeling better and getting your voice back!
I feel that this would be very beneficial for your department. Even our clinic nurses are required to go through skills lab training and be signed off before going to the clinics to orient. This particular study pertained to medical students but I think the findings could be applied to anyone in a clinical type role. The study concluded, “Skills lab trainings have shown to improve procedural skills in novices as well as experts. This applies to complex surgical skills as well as basic clinical skills performed by medical students. Furthermore there seems to be evidence, that simulation-based medical education positively influences the outcome in the clinical setting” (Herrmann-Werner, et al., 2013).
Herrmann-Werner A, Nikendei C, Keifenheim K, Bosse HM, Lund F, Wagner R, et al. (2013) “Best Practice” Skills Lab Training vs. a “see one, do one” Approach in Undergraduate Medical Education: An RCT on Students’ Long-Term Ability to Perform Procedural Clinical Skills. PLoS ONE 8(9): e76354. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0076354
Thanks! I am JUST now getting my voice back…sorta! 🙂
I really like the end of that quote, “simulation-based medical education positively influences the outcome in the clinical setting”. I think that this supports my idea of a skills lab in orientation to increase the success of a new to the department nurse. I, personally, do much better with hands on training when I learn. I know there are many, many more out there like me!
Skills training for anyone entering a new department would be beneficial. We are all nurses but entering a new department can always be scary, especially if we do not have proper training. At my hospital we have a short orientation course for nurses who have worked in the OR before and a 6 month pre-op nurse course for nurses who are new to the OR.
It is super scary going to a new place even if you are a nurse with experience. I think that the beauty of the skills check off would be that even if a nurse with prior GI lab experience joins our team, they can still complete the check offs. It just won’t take them as long. I think it would be beneficial for them to acknowledge they are proficient in the tasks and procedures.