Table 5 Strategies to improve the efficiency of the CR skills development action plan
From: A clinical reasoning skills development plan for coronary care nurse: an action research
Components | Strategies |
|---|---|
Efficiency of nursing education | Improving the effectiveness of in-service educational programs on the nursing process; Ensuring the continuity of education about the nursing process; Increasing the opportunities to learn the nursing process to get mastery over its use; Obliging the documentation of the nursing process in the nursing report |
Effective nursing management | Unifying patient data in the documentation process in order to improve data accessibility; Documenting all patient-related data in the hospital information system in order to improve the efficiency of the documentation process; Improving the hospital information system and promoting electronic documentation; Integrating the nursing process into the hospital information system; Providing formal education to nurses about electronic documentation; Providing the necessary equipment for electronic documentation; Programming an appropriate software to facilitate data documentation |
Personal professional development | Clarifying the role expectations and the responsibilities of mentors; Adequate nursing staffing during mentoring; Reducing mentors’ workload and care-related responsibilities; Strengthening peer support for mentors during mentoring; Ensuring the continuity of education; Close collaboration of novice and expert nurses; Providing adequate perceived organizational support to mentors in order to improve their motivation and commitment; Supervising mentors’ educational practice; Improving mentors’ professional knowledge; Evaluating mentors’ educational practice and providing feedback |