Upcoming Webinar

Onboarding at Sioux Valley Health System: It’s All About Relationships

Who Should Attend: All Learning and Development Professionals who want to create onboarding programs with real impact.

What You Will Hear: Onboarding is a critical issue for all businesses, but is particularly critical for health care organizations, many of which face severe shortages of qualified staff. Sioux Valley Health System, a group of hospitals, clinics and nursing homes, provides interactive learning sessions, opportunities for dialogue, and regular follow-up sessions between clinical educators and new hires facilitate the nurturing of relationships. Most important, new nursing employees are supported by Clinical Nurse Educators who serve as faculty advisors and mentors for twelve months following their hire date. In addition, the group responsible for onboarding is developing a strong relationship with hires at other levels, a key factor in increasing retention rates.

What You Will Learn:

	What core curriculum is provided early in the onboarding process
	How Clinical Nurse Educators interact with nurses for the first year
	What effect these relationships have on retention
	What Sioux Valley is doing to address retention of other staff

When: Thursday, February 15, 2007 at 1 PM ET*

Presenter:

Deborah Letcher is the Clinical Academy Education Manager at the Center for Learning and Innovation at Sioux Valley Hospitals & Health System in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. She holds a masters degree in nursing from Augustana College and is a doctoral nursing student at South Dakota State University, both located in Sioux Falls. Deb is responsible for the on-boarding process of new hires at Sioux Valley.

Details: This iLinc meeting is open to Corporate University Xchange member companies and invited guests. Please register for the event using this link: http://eventplus.ilinc.com/client/index.php?cmpId=35

If you have any questions about registration, please send an e-mail to events@corpu.com or call 717-761-0363.

About Sioux Valley Health System:
Sioux Valley Health System is at the forefront of healthcare, creating a comprehensive, integrated system that is “dedicated to the work of healing”. Sioux Valley, a non-profit health system based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, is an integrated network of hospitals, physician clinics, health plan, foundation and long term care facilities in South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa and Nebraska. Sioux Valley Hospital USD Medical Center is a 534 bed Magnet accredited tertiary hospital - it is the largest hospital within the Sioux Valley Health System and named one of America’s Best Hospitals by U.S. News & World Report. Sioux Valley Health System is comprised of almost 10,000 employees, including over 330 physicians and more than 150 healthcare facilities, working together to set a national example of community-based healthcare excellence.