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. 2. 3. 4. Induction training Job orientation In-service education Continuing education

Induction training: is a brief, standardized indoctrination to an agencys 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 agencys 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.