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M K Kleinknecht

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Maximizing nursing staff development. The learning laboratory.

To survive in today's cost-conscious medical-center environment, nursing education must show how it contributes effectively to promoting and maintaining the currency and competency of nursing staff practice, the quality of patient care, and the overall functioning of the medical center. In the face of limited resources, nursing education increasingly must promote staff's self-assessment of their own knowledge and skill deficiencies and use of self-study mechanisms to meet established performance standards. This survey explored the current use of learning laboratory centers used by nursing education for maximizing staff access to and use of needed remedial and practice update learning opportunities.

Education, Nursing, Continuing↗

Development of the Nursing Career Preference Inventory.

The Nursing Career Preference Inventory (NCPI) was developed to assist nurses in determining which of the four primary nursing practice areas--clinical, administration, research, or education--are most reflective of their personal work activity interests or preferences, and which of 14 customary hospital nursing role positions most often encompass the preferred work activity patterns. This report describes NCPI development and the reliability and validity of the instrument for VA and non-VA hospital nurse reference groups. Correlations between work activity responses of VA and non-VA nurses in the same positions ranged from .71 to .96, and alpha reliability coefficients for the four practice and activity item subsets ranged from .86 to .93 for the two nurse populations. Although additional work is needed to explore item consistency over time, the NCPI can be a useful tool in career development programs that are designed to assist nurses toward selecting nursing role positions and building career plans that reflect their own personal talents and interests.

Career Choice↗