Staff education and training

1. Role as Practitioner - Provide an analysis-of-self in the role as practitioner manager; drawing connection between this project experience, present state, and long-term professional goals. Describe the completion of the project, discussing challenges, solutions, and insights gained on the scholarly journey.

The role of the practitioner manager as it relates to staff education can be complex. Here, to prevent readmission of individuals experiencing bipolar, it is important to properly evaluate discharge protocols. It is also important to review interventions to improve the process of discharge from the in-patient setting. Here, the practitioner will need to evaluate these processes to improve the ability of patients to properly matriculate back into society. When analyzing myself as it relates to staff education it is important for the practitioner to have prior experience working in similar roles and functions. This is a critical component to the role of the practitioner as they can leverage their overall expertise to provide both qualitative and quantitative feedback. Project experience it also important as it allows the practitioner to further grasp the practical application of staff education within the overall working environment. In many instances textbook explanations often provide theory with little regard to the real-world implications for the theory. This occurs as many applications in the real world have many variables that are often outside the scope of the textbook theory. With practical experience, a practitioner is better able to address these variables when instructing others through the staff education process. Finally, this ability to leverage real world experiences provides the practitioner with much more credibility during the overall education process. This credibility is helpful in getting other individuals to adopt the policies and procedures within the educational process

Challenges with the role of practitioner pertain mainly to different teaching methods when engage with other employees. As a practitioner it is important to understand the various methods of instruction when teaching others through the overall staff education process. Particularly now as the world becomes much more diverse, the varying educational standards also become much more diverse. Different people learn in different ways. This is a challenge for the practitioner looking to identify methods in which to instruct others in a beneficial and comprehensive manner. This is also a challenge on the practitioner’s time as a “one size fits all” approach will unlikely be successful. As a result, an practitioner within the staff education process may need to leverage and utilize different training methods to arrive at the desired results (Rosborough, 1998_.

2. Role as Scholar - Provide an analysis-of-self in the role as scholar,; drawing connection between this project experience, present state, and long-term professional goals. Describe the completion of the project, discussing challenges, solutions, and insights gained on the scholarly journey.

The role of a scholar as it relates to staff education is very contentious. Here scholarly works do provide some benefits as it relates to practical application. However, many of these benefits are derived with accounting for other prevailing variables within the overall structure of the work environment. For example scholarly works do not cover many of the other elements that may occur throughout the course of the education process. Elements such as COVID-19, a war in Ukraine, technological advancement, and policy changes are often not reflected in scholarly works. If they are, they are often done so in isolation which makes their benefits muted. From a staff education perspective, it is important to provide critical thinking skills that can ultimately benefit the staff over the long term. Through proper instruction related to critical thinking, staff members are much more empowered to make decisions that rely on multiple variables. The challenge here is to properly determine and ascertain relevant scholarly material that will be used in the overall staff education process. In addition it is important to remove any material that is not immediately applicable to the immediate needs of staff and their ability to perform their job functions. Here, from a scholarly perspective, judgement is needed to properly determine how scholarly works can provide solutions within the overall staff education process. Here, the insights I have gleamed from this process reveal that more abstract processes are actually beneficial in the staff education process. Here, elements such as proper communication, proper critical thinking, and tolerance skills are very beneficial in the staff education process (Smith, 2002).

3. Role as Project Manager - Provide an analysis-of-self in the role as project manager; drawing connection between this project experience, present state, and long-term professional goals. Describe the completion of the project,

The role of the project manager is arguable one of the most important roles in the staff education process. Here, the project manager understands the deliverables, goals and objectives of a particular job or department. This is particularly helpful as the project manager can directly correlate goals and objectives within the overall staff education process. Here, project managers have a strong sense of the teams capabilities, their strengths and their overall weaknesses. Due to this intimate knowledge, staff education becomes much more pinpointed and direct as it relates to the overall educational outcomes. Skills that are lacking on the project managers team, can quickly be addressed to help alleviate any concerns. Likewise, strengths that are already apparent on team can be either enhanced or disregarded at the project managers discretion. In addition, the overall staff education process can be enhanced by hiring, training and retention processes of the project manager. From a staff education perspective, this provides the most advantage as it relates to properly training employees to achieve a desired result within the work setting.