Rationale:
The Union, being very concerned about the fact that our current skills training is no longer mandatory, and is mostly tailored to please Magnet Appraisers as opposed to “skill days” and “hands on” mandatory training sessions for all ICU Nurses that we had before COVID, the Union has included the following question in the Survey:
Would you like to have regular and meaningful “Skill Days” and regular “Hands On” training sessions for all nurses (as we had before COVID) to keep your knowledge and practical skills up to date to ensure top performance of our Unit ?
| Choices | Response % | Response Count |
| Yes, I would love to have regular and meaningful “Skill Days” and “Hands On” training for all nurses to ensure top performance of our Unit. | 97.3 % | 108 |
| No, I don’t think that “Skill Days” and/or regular “Hands On” training sessions are necessary. | 2.7 % | 3 |
| Any additional comments? | N/A | 7 |
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Statistical Analysis: The survey results clearly demonstrate that between 95.37% and 99.23% of our ICU nurses want to have regular and meaningful “Skill Days” and regular “Hands On” training sessions for all nurses (as we had before COVID) to keep their knowledge and practical skills up to date to ensure top performance of our ICU. These findings were calculated by using scientific formula at the highest possible 99% confidence level, with a margin of error of 1.93% and a p-score of 0.973.
Conclusion: This result provides strong evidence that overwhelming majority of our ICU nurses (between 95% and 99%) see the necessity of, and desire pre-COVID style mandatory “Skill Days” and “Hands On” training sessions for all of our ICU nurses to ensure top performance of our unit.
