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Jean Seaver: 'Education – the Foundation

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BY LOIS THOMSON developing future leaders manage that training for them. A lot of tion to gain more skills." She said
for succession planning; developing nursing skills and competen- Broward Health's Chief Medical Officer
According to Jean Seaver, and workforce develop- cies are needed to manage the care of was extremely supportive in the early
many people think that ment, which focuses on acute-care patients across different levels return of clinical students to the hospital
when nurses graduate from maintaining high-quality of care in our system." setting to continue their clinical training.
nursing school, they have relationships with Broward Also involved is a large Learning They returned earlier than many other
all the training they need to Health's academic partners Management System, in which compli- hospitals allowed. "By doing that, he
go into specialty areas – to provide clinicals and ance modules are built to meet all types enabled us to bring them back to contin-
whether working in the attract new talent for the of regulatory compliance at the corporate ue training with the appropriate PPE and
recovery room, in surgery, workforce pipeline. level. "Healthcare is the most regulated other safety needs; he understood we
the operating room, or in Seaver expanded on environment you're going to find, have to get the students back to get them
other capacities. She point- those components by say- because we have state regulations for prepared to pass their licensing exams so
ed out, however, "They ing, for example, that licensing, regulatory body standards that they can be hirable and be a future part
don't. They require a lot of Jean Seaver Broward Health operates a include management of biomedical of the healthcare team."
advanced training and cre- virtual, high-fidelity simu- waste, electrical safety issues, patient However, once the students returned,
dentialing to get to those levels for criti- lation hospital to enable clinical staff to safety, radiation – there's a lot of training they had to be apprised of the changes.
cal care." And Seaver is the one who can gain more proficiency in certain situa- that has to go on behind the scenes to "Medical science was changing by the
help get them there. tions. "We have the caregivers perform meet those requirements on an annual month. You can see that with the guid-
Seaver, Associate Vice President of through evidence-based, computer-based basis." ance the CDC gave us with COVID pre-
Learning and Development at Broward scenarios with mannequins that are life- In addition to her responsibilities at cautions. We were constantly updating
Health, said her position in the like, so they can get experience manag- Broward Health, Seaver serves on the education materials; it's a communica-
Department of Learning has three com- ing issues like strokes, cardiac arrest, or board of the Nursing Consortium of tions methodology to keep people cur-
ponents: clinical education program- internal hemorrhages. This provides a Florida. Previously the board secretary, rent to enable them to be effective in
ming, which includes clinical training/ safe environment to gain necessary skills she is currently president-elect for the meeting the mission of Broward Health,
in-service education to keep practice for proficiency." next two years, and will serve as presi- which is to provide quality care to the
knowledge and skills up to date, The clinical education function over- dent for two more after that. Seaver said, population we serve, and make a differ-
advanced clinical content to prepare sees and manages the nurse residency "The Consortium has a mission to edu- ence in this county."
nurses and other professionals for roles program, which includes considerable cate the public on the purpose and Seaver summarized by saying, "I
in the ED and OR; staff education and clinical training. "If we hire nurses and importance of nursing and nursing edu- encourage people to go into education.
leadership development through Bro - they want to become an ER nurse or a cation, and it also serves as an education People often want to be clinical nurses,
ward Health Leadership University, for critical care nurse or an OR nurse, we forum." they want to be advanced registered
She chairs the educational conference nurse practitioners, but education is the
planning committee, and said the pur- foundation that helps these people to
pose of the two annual conferences is to grow and develop. In my department,
connect everybody in South Florida to I've hired people who started their
what's happening – what they can do careers as nursing assistants; then they
To T o y ou our unsung her oe . s
together, what the solutions are, and how went back to school and became an LPN,
to share that information. "We are also became an RN, got an associate degree,
going to look at other matters , such as then got their bachelor's degree, then
how to change our approach to educat- their master's, and then they were educa-
ing nurses, given with what happened tors and moved on to become nurse
with the pandemic challenges." managers and Chief Nursing Officers.
COVID did indeed cause an upheaval Education is a wonderful opportunity to
in all facets of life, especially the medical help and see people grow."
field, and Seaver agreed: "Education has
been disrupted. We need to find more
support for our clinical coaches – pro- For more information, visit
vide the new graduate clinical staff more www.BrowardHealth.org/pages/
orientation time, more access to simula- nurse-residency-program.

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