Career Scope: Extend your career shelf life
Pazanta D. Goolsby MBA/HCM
Kineka J. Hull MS, MSPH
Dennis Sherrod EdD, RN

$3.95 		Nursing Management
December 2011 
Volume 42  Number 12
Pages 49 - 51
 
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ABSTRACT
In today's economy and work environments, it's more important than ever for nurse managers to demonstrate marketable skills. Maybe you'd like to continue in your current role as long as you like or maybe you'd like to transition to another position. Or maybe you'd like to establish your own personal market brand and venture into an entirely different career. Life-long learning and self-improvement have always been a part of our professional roles as we address evolving trends and changes in healthcare. Rapid healthcare and economic changes require specific knowledge, skills, competencies, and talents to extend your career shelf life and ensure continued success in the workplaces of today...and tomorrow.Healthcare trends and system changes require nurse managers to continuously update their knowledge and skill base. The following suggestions will assist you to focus your maintenance and self-improvement goals.Be a life-long learner. Continuing education (CE) improves knowledge, performance, and patient outcomes. It's also useful for making sustainable team and organizational improvements.1 Well-designed CE incorporates new technologies to improve learning. As you research CE opportunities, consider options that include informatics, human patient simulation, electronic medical records (EMRs), and/or increased interprofessional education.2 CE offerings should be practice-based to ensure knowledge retention, transference of skills, and improved patient care.3 Human patient simulation activities offer well-designed interprofessional education and clinical-based opportunities to refresh previously learned techniques, practice advanced techniques, and improve service delivery quality.4 Informatics CE increases competencies in computer and information literacy, EMR modalities, and leadership skills, and helps transform professionals into knowledge workers rather than task performers.2 Although accessing CE may be challenging during periods of employee and funding shortages,

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