Under the new plan, she might be assigned to work in a nursing home or a hospital so that she could hone her skills, update her résumé and gain valuable contacts.
These could be through improvement in the quality of undergraduate training and more post graduate continuing education courses for skills update.
Overall the review of quality assurance procedures reveal that basic RH policies, guidelines and standards were generally not well implemented while the VSPs had very little or no access to refresher trainings and RH skills update from MoH.
These include a high workload, a lack of equipment and materials, lack of training and skills updating, the common fear of the type of patients who may present with HIV, and little support to improve their performance.
Reduced memory, as well as reduced capacity to read, write, or work in front of a computer made it difficult to keep professional skills updated.
A five-point Likert-type scale rated participant satisfaction with updating knowledge, updating clinical skills, updating communication skills, the relevance of the aims and objectives, coverage of the aims and objectives, the learning environment, the learning materials, the opportunity for interaction, the workshop set up and overall rating.
Instead, he needs portable skills, updated regularly.
Beyond skills' updating, it would allow maintaining the access to skills and knowledge acquired through experience and that are still valuable for the organization.
These days, everyone needs to work at keeping their skills updated, making lifelong learners among the most attractive job candidates out there.
"This is the same group who are being hit hardest by underemployment, so they desperately need access to training and part-time college places to keep their skills updated and help them into work".
