Education for Action: An Innovative Approach to Training Hospital Employees

You’ve just been handed the job of training your hospital’s 3000 employees. Your task is to bring the hospital into compliance with OSHA and JCAHO requirements for health and safety training. Th e list of requirements is long, your JCAHO inspection is quickly approaching, but when you attempt to enlist managers and supervisors, they are concerned about staff time: “Can you do it in an hour? We have patients to take care of.” You’re also faced with the challenge of training employees on all shift s. “What about a 15-minute training video which would be shown to all new employees?” supervisors ask.