Meeting Nursing Staff Education through Learning Need Assessment

Nursing workforce needs continuous education in order to maintain their current knowledge and skills. Nurses’ learning needs could be assessed through several tools and strategies. The aim of this study is to identify nurses ‘s (at all levels) deficits in knowledge and skills through conducting a learning need assessment tool and meet their educational needs in order to enable them practicing safe, effective, deemed competent and efficient patient care. Method: A descriptive quantitative and qualitative design adapting an Education Needs Assessment Model. Instrument used was anonymous SurveyMonkey and target population was all nurses at different levels working at King Fahad Specialist Hospital, Dammam, and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The survey was constructed through literatures utilizing multiple database such as Pubmed and CINAHL and then through meetings the expert educators and stakeholders. The survey contained nine (9) educational domains that would identify their learning deficits using Likert scale. The survey was piloted to examine both face validity and content validity and then IRB approval was granted from the hospital. Results: Data were collected and analyzed followin