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This orientation is largely self-directed. You can move through it at your own pace and focus on areas of particular interest to you, or those you’ve identified as a focus your learning.
 

The Orientation Process for each functional role describes an integrated approach to orientation that includes both self-directed learning and opportunities to get support and technical assistance through peers, mentors, and key contacts.

This site provides the web-based component of the orientation process. The resources and orientation tools included on this site are intended for self-directed information access and learning.
The Resources section includes links to frequently used public health resources that are available on the Web.

The Orientation Tools provide a framework and resources for self-directed learning. The tools are competency-based. The competencies important to your role are organized within Competency Domains. The competency domains serve as the basis for the Orientation Tools, which allow you to:

• explore competencies important to your role;

• assess your learning needs, develop a plan for your orientation and identify priorities for knowledge and skill development through use a self assessment tool;

• access learning objectives that state what you need to learn to gain a particular knowledge or skill set;

• access a Learning Resource Toolkit that can help you learn about your role, public health practice, and the public health system in Washington State.

You do not have to complete one section before moving to another, but it is recommended that you review the orientation process steps and complete the self-assessment tool before moving into the other components of this site.

1. Click on your role from the list on the Public Health Orientation Home page. This expands the outline to list the elements of the orientation for your role: the Orientation Process Steps, Evaluation of the Orientation Process, Competencies Self-assessment, Learning Objectives, Learning Resource Toolkit, and a Printable Manual.
    

2. View the Site Directory bar on the left side of the screen and the Navigation bar on the right side of the screen.
    

   • Use the Site Directory bar to navigate between the Resources and Competency Domains. Click on a topic to go to the desired topic.

   • Use the Navigation bar to navigate the Orientation Process and Orientation Tools. Click on a topic to go to the desired topic.

   • The topics remain in the same location on the Site Directory and the Navigation bar as you move around within the site.
      

3. View the Orientation Tools for your role in the Navigation bar on the right side of the screen. The Competencies and Learning Objectives are linked to the Competency Domains in the Site Directory bar on the left.
    

   • Click on a Competency Domain; then click on Competencies to locate the associated competencies for that domain.

   • Click on a Competency Domain; then click on Learning Objectives to locate the learning objectives associated with that competency domain.
      

4. Click on Self-Assessment under the Orientation Tools in the Navigation bar. This opens your self-assessment page with a link to a PDF file that contains the Self-Assessment with “bookmarks” to guide you to each competency domain. (You will need to download and print this tool.)
    

5. Click on the Learning Resource Toolkit under the Navigation bar. The Toolkit is further broken down by knowledge area. Navigate through the knowledge areas within your role.

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Tips

• Bookmark This Site

• Remember that the orientation website compliments other orientation activities. Read through the orientation process steps to identify these activities (e.g. mentoring, contact with liaisons, networking with peers), and link to them.

• This site is designed in modules. You do not have to complete one section before moving to another. It is recommended, however, that you review the background and purpose, orientation process steps, and evaluation sections before moving into the other components.

• Navigate the site first by your own functional role. Then explore some of the others.

• Pay attention to the Site Directory in the shaded bar on the left of the screen. As you navigate through the various components, the menu will change to help you move around within the site.

• Return “Home” if you get lost! (When you click on “PH Orientation Home” you will be taken to the “home page”, which allows you to navigate back through the various components of the orientation within your specific role.)