A Multimodal Project to Assess Preceptor Burnout: Implications for Professional Development Practitioners.

This article describes the assessment of contributing factors to preceptor burnout and strategies to address them. A review of the literature, surveys, and focus groups were conducted, and no single solution to address burnout was found. Findings did not show significant differences related to the number of preceptors, the experience of preceptors, or the experience of new hires.

Strengthening Healthy Work Environment Outcomes Via Interprofessional Direct Care Champion Roles.

Objective: To provide an organization-wide, systematic approach to creating and sustaining healthy work environments (HWEs) through frontline interprofessional staff education and coaching engagement.

Background: HWE has been an overarching concept in the organization's nursing professional practice model since 2014; however, few practice settings routinely translated survey findings to improve the work environment's health via local interprofessional direct care team members.

Methods: The program used a participatory approach where HWE champions committed to participate in centralized professional development activities and local quality improvement initiatives to bolster the health of area work environments.

Implementation and Evaluation of Wright's Competency Model.

Wright's competency model is increasingly used by healthcare organizations around the globe. This article describes the implementation of Wright's model over a 4-year period. Creation of a steering group and decentralization of the effort were keys to success in achieving over 98% participation across all nursing areas and six other healthcare professions.

Development and implementation of an independence rating scale and evaluation process for nursing orientation of new graduates.

A wide variety of evaluation formats are available for new graduate nurses, but most of them are single-point evaluation tools that do not provide a clear picture of progress for orientee or educator. This article describes the development of a Web-based evaluation tool that combines learning taxonomies with the Synergy model into a rating scale based on independent performance. The evaluation tool and process provides open 24/7 access to evaluation documentation for members of the orientation team, demystifying the process and clarifying expectations.

A comparison of the effectiveness of computer-based learning courses among nursing staff.

A pilot study was developed to determine if the retention of knowledge was different between text-only and interactive computer-based learning (CBL) formats and if there was a difference in the amount of time it takes to complete a text-only versus an interactive CBL course. Results showed that interactive CBL courses showed greater long-term learning retention than noninteractive CBL courses, and the time to complete the courses was not different between them.