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Learning sits at the heart of evolution and success for organisations across all sectors . One of the biggest challenges facing several industries today is under-resourced teams and widening skills gaps – some more than others .
It is well-publicised that healthcare workers are operating long hours due to stretched resources and increased patient demand . With such a pressing need to upskill existing and prospective staff , finding time for training courses is essential to ensure that staff are on top of the latest illnesses and ailments and know how to deliver the treatments needed to take due care of their patients . Yet , finding time to do so is almost impossible due to the unrelenting time constraints they face .
Inefficient learning is holding the healthcare industry back from operating at its true potential .
In such a fast-paced environment , it ’ s almost impossible to create or manage , curate and deliver resources quickly enough to match the skill development needs of the workforce . It ’ s also clear that providing stock training material is no longer fit for purpose to meet the different background knowledge , know-how , experience , interests and objectives that each individual has .
When time is money – and when errors can lead to genuine patient harm – organisations cannot afford inefficiencies . Human capital costs are normally the highest outgoing expenses in any company , so not having a highly trained workforce that is confident in their roles can cost organisations hundreds of millions a year .
Healthcare organisations must evolve to keep pace with the world they operate in . This requires a shift in the approach towards the learning and development of staff .
Chibeza Agley , Co-founder and CEO at OBRIZUM , talks to us about how healthcare organisations can address inefficiencies in their current training process to save significant financial and time costs , overcoming the time pressures that many will be facing .
It ’ s time to abandon the age-old , one-size-fits-all learning programmes and replace them with something far more adaptive .
Why is linear learning ineffective ?
The majority of digital learning courses are delivered in a linear way , where learners consume content in a predefined order . Essentially , it provides a stepby-step exposition of a subject , typically divided into chapters or modules , with the level of complexity increasing as the user progresses through the course .
PRESCRIBING THE TREATMENT FOR
LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT INEFFICIENCIES IN HEALTHCARE
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