Continuing Nursing Education

CONTINUING
NURSING
EDUCATION
INTRODUCTION
Continuing nursing education is the process directed towards

the personal and professional growth of nurses and other
personnel while they are employed by a health care agency.
It is essential for the up-liftmen of professional as well as
administrative field. Continuing education helps in updating
the knowledge and practice of professionals. It is applicable
not only to the nursing field but also to all the professional
fields.
DEFINITION
✓ According to the dictionary of education:

Continuing education is any extension of
opportunities for reading, study and training to any
person and adult following them completion of or
withdrawal from full time school and/or college
programmers.
✓ Continuing education is all the learning activities that occurs after an

individual has completed his basic education' - Cooper
NEEDS
• To ensure safe and effective nursing • Professional roles are changed as

care, nurses need to keep abreast with society altered and a new knowledge
interest, knowledge and technical and technologies emerge.
advances. • Nursing functions require a high
• To meet the needs of population degree of skill, knowledge,
• Development of nurses will occur by competence and educational
updating their knowledge and prepare preparation.
them for specialization. • The demand after specialized nursing
• For career improvement. services is increasing more rapidly.
• To provide a variety of continuing • Planned programs are needed to
nursing education opportunities of increase their competence as
high quality to nurses in both practitioners.
education and service changes.
FUNCTIONS
➢ To meet the health needs and public

expectations.
➢ To develop the practicing abilities of the ➢ To test the participants ability
nurse. to do normal academic study.
➢ Recruitment function. ➢ To maintain academic
➢ Recognize gaps in their knowledge. standards
➢ To test participants ability to do final ➢ To ensure quality of
academic study. education
➢ To improve the communication between ➢ To meet educational
the participants, community, faculty and requirements
health sector.
ELEMENTS
The philosophy of continuing
nursing education recognize
the
1. Learner
2. Teacher/Nurse education.
1. Learner :
-As a person as a nurse and as
a citizen, thus continuing
nursing education is seen as a
totality a sound philosophy of - Diversity is a part of learning process and
education recognizes all three contributes to the development of the individual
aspects of lifelong learning
2.TEACHER/NURSE EDUCATOR
He has to accept the concept of lifelong learning and his responsibility to encourage
nurses to recognize the values of participating in different type of educational
activities.
❖ Teacher should act as a role model.
❖ The skillful teacher has to aware of difference in learning, what is already know
and encouraging exploration in those areas yet to be discovered.
❖ Creative teaching is essential.
❖ Guide and counselor to the learner.
❖ Motivator and an encourager for the students
❖ Administrative role like planning, directing, budgeting and evaluation
✓ Master’s degree in his area of
nursing expertise a doctorate in
adult education
EDUCATIONAL ✓ Writing and organizing skills.
PREPARATION ✓ A continuing learner.
✓ Clinical expertise
✓ Depth of nursing knowledge and
skill in its application. Interest in
subject
✓ Adequate knowledge about
teaching skills and methods of
teaching.
CHARACTERISTICS
1. Concern for people. 7. Self-confidence.

2. Flexibility 8. A sense of humor
3. Sensitive to group 9. An innate curiosity.
responsibilities. 10. Desire to search the unknown.
4. Willing to travel. 11. Interest in self-development
5. Resourcefulness. and in others development.
6. Determination
DEFINATION
RESEARCH IN According to the "Journal of
CONTINUING Nursing Education," nurses
EDUCATION who diversify their professional
skills contribute directly to
improved patient safety.
Continuing nursing education

enables nurses to develop
strong expertise levels for the
benefit of patient
BARRIERS OF RESEARCH IN COUNTINUE
NURSING EDUCATION
• The problem of implementing valid research results in

nursing practice is well known.
• A gap often exists between what is known and what is

practiced.
• Continuing professional education has been promoted as

one way to bridge the gap between research and practice so
that patients may benefit
❑ An initial needs assessment can be
accomplished using strategies such as
self-reflection, reading, and discussions
with respected peers.
❑ The next step is to choose a learning
activity, and there may often be a
discrepancy between the health
professional's preference for a style of
PLANNING FOR continuing education and what might be
IMPROVING most effective in actually improving
practice
PRACTICE ❑ Reading materials can be useful if they
are evidence-based. Secondary sources
-As professionals, we need to develop such as this journal are ideal because they
systems of scrutinizing our practice only present high-quality research, and
with a view to self-improvement provide a commentary on each abstract by
a clinician.
EVALUATION OF BEHAVIOURAL CHANGE
STRATEGIES
➢ Several systematic reviews of a broad ➢ Other reviews have focused

range of interventions to improve health on specific interventions such
professional practice in general, and as audit and feedback,
nursing practice specifically, have been educational outreach
conducted
➢ One systematic review has focused
➢ Behavior changes strategies
specifically on the effectiveness of
which have shown an impact
continuing nursing education, and
on practice include, prompts
covered complex interventions as well
on patient charts and
as traditional activities such as lectures
workshops that include
interaction among participants
Knowledge regarding continuing
CONCLUSION nursing education is necessary for a
teacher to teach effectively which
enhance learning of a student / learner.

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CONTINUING

Continuing nursing education is the process directed towards

✓ According to the dictionary of education:

✓ Continuing education is all the learning activities that occurs after an

• To ensure safe and effective nursing • Professional roles are changed as

➢ To meet the health needs and public

1. Concern for people. 7. Self-confidence.

Continuing nursing education

• The problem of implementing valid research results in

• A gap often exists between what is known and what is

• Continuing professional education has been promoted as

➢ Several systematic reviews of a broad ➢ Other reviews have focused

CONCLUSION nursing education is necessary for a

teacher to teach effectively which

enhance learning of a student / learner.

1. D. ELAKKUVANA BHASKARA RAJ & NIM BHASKAR.

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