Office Location Location: 5A Telephone: 860.545.8691 Registration Line: 860.545.8690

Our mission is to collaborate with all units to identify and facilitate the education and development necessary to meet employee, team, and organizational goals.

Vision Statement: To promote a learning organization which values change and excellence in education, individual and organizational development.

Services

The Education and Development Team partners with departmental leaders, Quality Improvement, and Human Resource staff to facilitate development and educational opportunities. In doing so, the team assesses learning needs and plans, develops, implements, and evaluates programs to support professional practice promoting organizational and role specific competencies. The Team provides high quality, customer-focused services to staff, patients and families, and affiliated students and faculty.

The Education & Development Team is comprised of professional staff with training and expertise in Adult and Nursing Education, Pediatric Clinical Specialty, and Organizational Development.

Current Training/Development Projects:

• Leadership Development
• Role Redesign Training and Development
• Unit-based Education Committee Development
• Deaf and Hard of Hearing Consent Decree Training
• Policy & Procedure Committee
• IV Skills Class
• PCA Orientation
• RN Orientation

Program Coordination:

• CPR (Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation)
• PALS (Pediatric Advanced Life Support)
• Spanish for the Health Care Provider
• Orientation of new staff
• Validations, transition to computerized training
• Student Placements (including job shadowing)
• Patient/Family Education Committee
• Clinical Courses - EKG, Chemotherapy

Staff:
Irsal Cabahug, RN, Consultant
Peggy Dorough, RN, MS, Consultant
Christopher Grivas, MS, Consultant
Deb Martin, RN, Consultant
Sally Strange, MSN, RN, Consultant
Pamela Tomazic, Coordinator