Several training approaches were reported, including didactic presentations during staff orientation, online learning, presentations at departmental in-services and conferences, and one-to-one training by peers.
Results: This cohort recruitment required attention to developing community partnerships, designing the research study to meet the study hypotheses and to provide benefit to participants, providing a safe community-based site for the research and creating didactics to develop staff cultural proficiency.
All 10 sites received the standard didactic and two support staff trainings.
The second was a didactic session for nursing staff on units that regularly housed patients requiring radioactive precautions.
The inclusion of support staff in didactic training and focus on values and systems within the support staff training were cited as unique and useful characteristics of the RTI-MM.
Second, educational sessions were held, in which didactic teaching reinforced confidence of staff working with the protocol.
While one challenge in providing education on quality improvement principles is the content of the curriculum, another challenge consists of presenting information differently from the usual didactic seminars that nursing home staffs attend, which are not always effective.
A total of 96 health workers from the 4 health facilities including nurses, counselors, community health workers, clinicians, and laboratory staff received 2-day didactic training followed by 2 weeks of on-site supervision and mentorship.
Clinic PCPs and nursing staff attended a depression treatment didactic session by the study psychiatrist at study onset and a refresher midway.
Support staff training typically included basic didactic information on miscarriage management in the office setting and focused on systems change to address site-specific barriers such as patient flow, triage, billing, and blood products management.
