Teaching an elephant to drive. Massive staff education in a tight time frame

Providing education and development to patient care personnel with minimal disruption to patient care activities is a daily challenge to staff educators. This article describes how a small nursing development department planned and coordinated the orientation to a new facility and the education and training on new equipment to over 1,000 nurses over a period of several months. The strategies used at this large, urban, academic medical center can be applied to other healthcare facilities.