Article: Staff development: the neglected discipline.

How many times following the department of health survey have you sat down to write your facility's plan of correction and noticed yourself writing that all too familiar phase "facility staff will be [or have been] in-serviced on ..."? The frequency with which this phrase appears in the responses to deficiencies reported on the CMS-2567 implies that most deficiencies received during the annual survey resulted from a lack of staff knowledge. If we are to assume that this is true, one should ask the logical question: Why wasn't education provided to staff in the first place? And that question should immediately give rise to another question: Why weren't these educational ...

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