TYPES OF STAFF DEVELOPMENT

Staff development includes formal and informal, group and individual training and
education. The goals of staff development are to assist each employee to improve
performance in her or his present position and to acquire personal and professional
abilities that maximize the possibility of career advancement.
Staff development activities include the following:
1. Induction training
2. Job orientation
3. In-service education
4. Continuing education
Induction training: is a brief, standardized indoctrination to an agency’s philosophy,
purpose, policies and regulations given to each worker during her or his first two or three
days of employment in order to ensure his or her identification with agency’s philosophy,
goals and norms
Job orientation: is an individualized training programe intended to acquaint a newly
hired employee with job responsibilities work place, clients and co-workers
In-service education: it is defined as a continued programe of education provided by the
employing authority, with the purpose of developing the competence of personal in their
functions appropriate to the position they hold, or to which they will be appointed in the
service.
In-service education is a planned instructional or training programe provided by an
employing agency in the employing setting and designed to increase competence in a
specific area
Continuing education: is “any extension of opportunities for reading, study and training
to any person and adult following their completion of or withdrawal from full time school
and /or college programs”
Continuing education in nursing consists of planned learning experiences beyond a basic
nursing educational program. These experiences are designed to promote the
development of knowledge, skills, and attitudes for the enhancement of nursing practice,
thus improving health care to the public
Intramural education: is community based continuing education directed towards
meeting the job related learning needs of the nurse and other personnel. Exclusive of full
time formal study at a degree granting institution.