Well if you can believe this, my LMS (yes I’m calling it mine now) is still not quite up and running. We have a few issues with the deployment and I think I have already mentioned that one of them is the fact that the majority of our staff do not yet have a way to access it from home. Of course we don’t have enough computers/kiosks internally for them to access it from either. So…we wait for the IT department to work on their “EMAIL FOR EVERYONE” project.
We’ve decided instead to start/aim smaller and use the LMS for registering and tracking education. However….. we have 770 different job titles within our organization. Very crowded, cumbersome, and difficult for the system we have purchased to navigate through. The thinking behind the billion different titles is that being in a health care facility we have, as an example, RNs (registered nurses) in every clinical area (say 30 areas), we then have fulltime, partime and casual RNs in each area (30×3). At this point I’ve already shown you a possible 90 different roles. Then then are technologists, unit clerks, clerical staff, professional resources, etc, etc, etc.
Now I have the task of trying to take the unique rolls within each department and see if we can try to narrow them down to more generalized categories. Our intent is that each category (with a dept) will have specific educational needs. For example all ICU RNs would take CPR, all Emergency Unit Clerks would take Computer Order Entry.
Too bad no body realized early in our history that we had sooooooo many rolls being created.
Tracy:
what LMS have you decided to use? I’m in the same predicament as you are?
Rod
Hi Rodell: We’ve gone with Clarity. They gave us a solution for an intranet, CME, and the LMS. We decided we are going to go out and talk to some of the larger departments to see if they 1) understand why we want to roll up roles, 2) are we mistaking that some roles have the same education needs as others.
For example: does a secretary in the department have the same needs as a staff scheduler and a unit clerk (the member that enters physican orders into the system). They are all administrative as we consider them, but is that reality.
I’d love to here what you are using and the struggles you are having as well Rodell. I’m currently seeking anyone out using the same product or experiencing the same issues. Feel free to email me directly.
don’t laugh at my postings….I used to teach nurses across the country with a local university and used ‘Blackboard’. I am now an education director at one of the health care agencies where clinicians (RNs, Social workers, Spiritual CAre advisors, nursing aides, volunteers, management, etc) are all dispersed across the State since we have different sites. I have looked at Captivate, learn.com, moodle, sakai…and started to have a headache 🙂 plus my CEO has been putting pressure on me so I made a decision to go ahead with Blackboard (since I am an expert on it, hence, little or no development time)! myhunch is to go with them for a 2-year contract while I invetigate other platforms :-)…don’t know if this is the right decision but with the pressures and the ‘headaches’, hope I’m making the right call.
rod
how do you like Clarity? went to their website and read some of the stuff…..