Just-in-Time Training: A Novel Approach to Quality Improvement Education

Abstract

Just-in-time training (JITT) is accepted in medical education as a training method for newer concepts or seldom-performed procedures. Providing JITT to a large nursing staff may be an effective method to teach quality improvement (QI) initiatives. We sought to determine if JITT could increase knowledge of a specific nutrition QI initiative. Members of the nutrition QI team interviewed staff using the Frontline Contextual Inquiry to assess knowledge regarding the specific QI project. The inquiry was completed pre- and post-JITT. A JITT educational cart was created, which allowed trainers to bring the educational information to the bedside for a short, small group educational session. The results demonstrated a marked improvement in the knowledge of the frontline staff regarding our Vermont Oxford Network involvement and the specifics of the nutrition QI project. Just-in-time training can be a valuable and effective method to disseminate QI principles to a large audience of staff members.

Analysis of Student Perceptions of Just-In-Time Teaching Pedagogy in PharmD Microbiology and Immunology Courses

“…JiT training undertaken at a Pediatric Emergency Department was found to significantly improve medical students' and resident trainees' procedural skills, procedure-related knowledge, and comfort level of trainees to perform a given procedure (11,12). Similarly, JiT training strategy was found to markedly improve knowledge of nursing training staff that brought prior JiT training information to the bedside educational discussions (13). JiT training tool was used to validate minimum competency of bedside nursing staff managing high-risk low-volume therapies in order to ensure patient safety (14).…”

Đào tạo và huấn luyện đội hỗ trợ y tế khẩn cấp

“…Một thực tế trong những lần hỗ trợ đáp ứng y tế với thảm hoạ gần đây cho thấy các đội EMT đều thiếu những kiến thức về y tế công cộng. Điều này đòi hỏi trong chương trìn đào tạo cho các đội EMT cần phải lồng ghép các nội dung của đa chuyên ngành, lồng ghép tổ chức đào tạo những kiến thức cơ bản / nâng cao với những khoá cập nhật kiến thức mới một cách kịp thời cho các đội EMT [10].…”

Technology-Enhanced Faculty Development: Future Trends and Possibilities for Health Sciences Education

“…JiT approaches identify teaching and learning activities that identify learners’ needs in a timely fashion to provide educational support [ 21 ]. There are several naming conventions of JiT such as just-in-time teaching [ 22 , 23 ], just-in-time learning [ 24 ], just-in-time training [ 25 ], and just-in-time education [ 26 ]. While there are differences in the way each method is applied, we use JiT to refer to a broad strategy in this paper.…”