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With all the changes in staffing in the past few years due to the pandemic, a high-quality onboarding process is even more important for retention and ensuring a new nurse's success. In this fully revised third edition of the Staff Educator's Guide to Clinical Orientation, authors Robin Jarvis, Amy J. Word-Allen, and Alvin Jeffery provide you with all the tools you need to successfully develop a nursing and healthcare workforce.
Whether someone is new to leading orientation efforts or a seasoned nursing staff development specialist, this book will help readers:Understand the role of the preceptor in clinical orientation activities
Incorporate regulatory and legal issues
Understand and use the ADDIE Model
Analyze, design, and implement an orientation program
Evaluate an individual's competency
Conduct surveys and focus groups
Manage orientee errors and personality conflicts
About the author
Robin L. Jarvis, MS, SPHR, GTML, is an expert in adult learning with over 25 years of experience in healthcare, high technology, retail, and consulting companies. She has experience in leadership development, talent management, and organizational development, as well as serving as a Human Resources generalist and leading a talent-acquisition team. Her work has taken her from Texas to India, China, Singapore, Taiwan, the Netherlands, and England. In addition to a master of science in leadership, Jarvis has participated in over 500 hours of additional training in topics such as cross-cultural communication, accelerated learning, instructional design, leadership development, brain-based learning, neuro-linguistic programming, and meeting and workshop facilitation. She has designed and delivered workshops on topics including new employee orientation and onboarding, change management, employee engagement, career development, accelerated learning, learning styles, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, StrengthsFinder, Extended DISC, The Leadership Challenge, presentation skills, meeting skills, behavioral-based interviewing, and many other topics. Jarvis has co-presented at several conferences on thetopic of orientation and onboarding.
