title: Teaching an elephant to drive. Massive staff education in a tight time frame.
abstract: Providing education and development to patient care personnel with minimal disruption to patient care activities is a daily challenge to staff educators. This article describes how a small nursing development department planned and coordinated the orientation to a new facility and the education and training on new equipment to over 1,000 nurses over a period of several months. The strategies used at this large, urban, academic medical center can be applied to other healthcare facilities.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing Development, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
authors.forename: S E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Gaynor
authors.forename: B J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: VanCura
authors.forename: G L
authors.initials: GL
authors.lastname: Reschak
mesh_terms: D000046:Academic Medical Centers; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005160:Facility Design and Construction; D006786:Hospitals, Urban; D006801:Humans; D007087:Illinois; D013997:Time Factors