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Assessing the Effectiveness Between Nurse Educator and Clinical Coach Critical Care Training Programs for New
Tammy Blass1, Ruth McFee, Debra Hunt
1Author Affiliations: Director, Nursing Education (Dr Blass), Senior Nursing Instructor (Ms McFee, Ms Hunt, Ms Francone, Ms Nguyen), Assistant Nursing Director, Nursing Quality Management (Dr Vermillion), Chief Research Analyst (Dr Canamar), and Chief Quality Officer (Dr Sarff), Los Angeles County + University of Southern California Medical Center.
Objective:
The aim of this study was to assess the differences in effectiveness between nurse educator-led and clinical coach-led intensive care unit (ICU) training programs for new graduate nurses.
Background:
New graduate ICU nurses require substantial clinical training, which is often provided by peers serving as clinical coaches who have not been formally trained for an educator role. Our medical center successfully transitioned from a nurse educator-led to clinical coach-led model for initial ICU education after formally training the clinical coaches.
Methods:
Nurses enrolled in nurse educator-led (n = 114) or clinical coach-led (n = 166) ICU clinical training programs were compared on program pass rate, satisfaction, preparedness, turnover, and competence.
Results:
There were no statistically significant differences between the groups on any of the identified measures of program effectiveness.
Conclusions:
Both educator-led and clinical coach-led models, with appropriate training, effectively prepared ICU nurses in this setting. Implementing a clinical coaching model for ICU training of new graduate nurses could assuage common resource issues, such as a shortage of nurse educators, as well as address the increasing demand for well-trained ICU nurses.
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