Crosstraining.
The small, rural hospitals have effectively crosstrained employees in multiple job skills for years. The large institutions can learn this useful and successful methodology from the small hospitals. A well-established crosstraining program can effectively build a versatile, multi-skilled staff, which can be utilized to meet the unpredictable demands on materiel management and other support services. It is an effective tool to reducing training costs and salary expenses and to improving performance, self-esteem and job security. It could very well be one of the keys to surviving in the 1990s.
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