5 Problems Quickly Solved with Patient Safety Training Videos

The healthcare industry is inundated with concerns about patient safety and the wellbeing of the patients that each healthcare organization comes into contact with. Hospitals, healthcare, and other organizations providing patient care have extensive resources available to encourage patient safety, but none are as effective and efficient as patient safety training videos. Patient safety training videos can actually be used to solve several key problems for healthcare organizations.

1. Employees Forget their Training

Are you finding that no matter how often you schedule employee training, your employees are forgetting what they learn? You might be providing the training in the wrong way. In-person training, seminars, and textbook style training can be difficult to recall later on. The average student or learner will forget 60% of what they learn in the first 3 months following training. Those who train via written textbook, likely only retain about 20% of what they read and will forget much of that over time.

Fortunately, patient safety training videos can solve this problem! With safety training videos, your employees are going to recall significantly more of what you teach. In fact, employees recall an average of 90% of what they learn via video versus significantly less when training is provided in other ways.

2. Training Costs Too Much

For good training, the average healthcare business is spending between $200 and $500 or more per employee to provide training. All of that training is lost when an employee quits resulting in the healthcare practice being forced to shell out another $200 to $500 to train the next employee. Turnover costs hospitals an average of $328K for RNs alone each year. Think of how expensive this can be for healthcare organizations with a high turnover.

Patient safety training videos provide safe, affordable training to your team. Since video production costs are paid one time, upfront, there are no future expenses associated with training each additional employee that you hire. You’ll pay the expense once and use the training videos over and over potentially saving thousands, hundreds of thousands or more depending on the size of your healthcare practice and how long you utilize the training videos after production.

3. Training Takes Too Much Time

Is new employee training chewing up any time you have? Patient safety training videos can solve your time constraints by limiting the amount of time that you put into each new employee’s training. Instead of having the employee shadow you, or instead of providing in-person training that requires a group of employees to come together for several days or hours of scheduled training, video makes training faster, easier, and less interruptive.

With patient safety training videos, you’ll spend time creating training and once that is complete, you will not have to worry about scheduling training or organizing staff schedules for training again. Each staff member can access training on their own time, from anywhere and they can train. There are no interruptions or schedules to align. There are no trainers to book. There are no facilities to book. With a computer or phone that has internet connection, your employees can train.

4.   Employees Struggle with Training Concepts

A common problem with in-person training is that your employees feel like they have to get all of their training digested in a single setting. There’s a rushed feeling, and new employees can be overwhelmed as they are inundated with information. Stack complex patient safety training concepts on top of it all and you’re almost certainly find that your employees struggling to follow along with the training that they’re receiving. It’s almost inevitable.

Patient safety training videos reduce all of these burdens. They break down complex training topics and concepts into easy to digest and understand microlearning sessions. Employees can train in 5 minutes and walk away with nearly an hour’s worth of knowledge. They’ll gain stronger insight into the most complex topics because audio visual concepts are simply easier to understand than in-person or textbook based training.

5. Employees Lose Interest or Don’t Finish Training

The biggest problem with textbook based training or training manuals is that your employees will lose interest and you’ll have a lack of any way to determine who’s finished their training and who hasn’t. How will you know who read a textbook, aside from providing a test which isn’t always the best way to find out if someone read because some people don’t test well. Some people struggle with reading, which can further complicate text based learning. And sitting for several hours in training is bound to result in even the most committed employees losing interest.

With patient safety training videos, your employees are going to gain the essential skills they need and they are going to be engaged in the training. They’ll be less likely to lose interest and more likely to finish the training that is provided. You’ll also have access through a learning system to track who has trained, what videos they watched, and how they interacted with the content, so you’ll know who’s doing well and who might need some additional assistance from you.

As you can see, patient safety training videos are the only way to go if you want to solve these major problems with your training program. To get started with the production of patient safety training videos for your team, give Beverly Boy Productions a call!