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Employer Quotes
The quotes below are from employers in this industry: Health Care
They are talking about this topic: Current Continuing Education
The quotes below are about this issue:
Current incumbent training topics include new technology, computer skills, electronic medical records, and diversity. Employers have also sent employees for specialist training. Recertification is a large portion of incumbent continuing education as well.
| "We're doing the same thing with our staff, too. Because—again it's a mix—but the younger staff have the technology skills and they help the older staff with that. And then the older staff will say, 'Come here, I'm going to teach you how to help someone who is dying.' So, you know, it is nice as long as you have that kind of mix. Although, sometimes, you don't always get that. We're offering classes now—for Microsoft and the computer stuff—that's away from the floor. And they get paid to attend. Some classes they're getting paid for as soon as they can facilitate getting used to that. We just went to electronic medical records last July, and let me tell you it was really special. The younger kids just said blip, blip, blip. No problem. Blip, blip, blip. But the older folks, they go, 'Where's the 'on' button? Where's the 'on' button to this computer?' So, we had longer training periods for those people that were a little bit more technologically-challenged. But they're up-to-speed now. We're doing fairly well; we could be doing better." |
Northwest |
| "We've taken some staff and sent them back to become clinical nurse specialists. They've got really solid skills. That's kind of an area we taught nurse practitioners, but clinical nurse specialists are something we really want to see more of in the hospital in acute care." | Northwest |