Staff Development and Continuing Education Collaborative Objectives

1. Create educational resources and affordable programs within the practice setting that foster IT innovation and adoption. This team will start by collecting case studies, practice examples, and models of innovative and effective staff development programs within nursing, healthcare and other industries that can be tested and replicated.

2. Use the informatics competencies, theories, research and practice examples throughout staff development and continuing education programs.

3. Develop recommendations for effective partnerships with industry, academic programs, nursing professional organizations and technology developers that support competency-based field education programs.