| Learning Objective #1: The learner will be able to describe techniques that can be used in the work environment to support and retain nurses edcated overseas. | |||
| Learning Objective #2: The learner will be able to describe techniques to engage staff in the successful integration of nurses educated overseas into an American work environment. |
Objective: Success for All, a program created by the Institute for Johns Hopkins Nursing, was designed in response to the growing number of nurses recruited from overseas to work in American health care organizations. The goals of the program are to both maximize the performance of those nurses and create a working environment that leads to retaining them.
Design: The Success for All Workshop is a 16 hour, interactive case-study based course. It is centered on a cultural fluency behavioral model of Learn-Check-Act and includes the following components: 1) Introduction to cultural values, beliefs, and practices in other cultures 2) Expectation setting activities 3) Activities to develop a supportive work environment 4) Engaging unit staff in identifying their own cultural beliefs, valuing the cultures of others, and creating support systems for new nurses
Population: The audience for the Success for All program has been nurse managers, preceptors and educators from the Johns Hopkins Health System.
Methods: Nurses attending Success for All experience educational activities which are geared for them to replicate in their units, with their own colleagues. Each nurse receives an extensive resource manual with web links to nursing education institutions worldwide, resources and web links to cultural information as it relates to medical contexts, and an instructor's workbook to engage unit staff in all activities from the workshop.
Findings/Conclusions: Nurses who have attended this course describe it as not only useful with nurses educated overseas, but helpful in creating the environment necessary to develop and retain any new nurse. This is based on the importance of clearly articulated expectations and the respect demonstrated for the culture of each new nurse.
Implication: Effective performance and retention of new nurses, whether educated overseas or in the US, requires proactive intervention on the part of the employing organization at all levels.
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