Continuing Education (PRAGATI TOPIC)

1. CONTINUING EDUCATION
-By Pragati Pandilwar
BSC Nursing IV year

2. GENERAL OBJECTIVES
At the end of the seminar students will be able to
understand about continuing nursing education and achieve
knowledge regarding it.

3. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
At the end of the seminar students will be able to :
 Define continuing education
 Enlist Objectives of continuing education
 Understand the needs of continuing education
 Determine the functions
 Principles of continuing education

4.  Explain methods used for continuing education
 Discuss steps in planning continuing education
 Explain roles of nurse

6. CONTINUING EDUCATION
It is planned activity and directed towards meeting the learning
needs available following there completion of college programme
to keep the registered the nurses abreast of their particular field of
interest.
Continuing education is a means of staff development which
assist the employee to improve the performance in her present
situation.

7. Various opportunities are available for nurses to work according to
their professional qualification such as A.N.M., G.N.M., B.Sc. Post Basic
Nursing, B.Sc. Nursing, M.Sc. Nursing and Ph. D in Nursing.
The certificate courses such as intensive care, paediatric care,
ophthalmic care, operation theatre, premature care, kidney dialysis etc. and
diploma courses such as Teaching Public Health Administration, Psychiatric
Nursing.
To develop proficiency and skills, the nurse attends orientation
programmes, work-shops, seminars & conferences etc.

8. DEFINITION
“ Continuing education is all the learning activities that occurs after an
individual has completed his basic education.”
-cooper
“ That education which builds on previous knowledge.”
-Shannon
“ Continuing education is any extension of opportunities for reading, study,
and training to young persons and adults following their completion of or
withdrawal from full-time school and college.”

9. OBJECTIVES
 Keep up to date with new concepts development in the health field.
 To increase their basis knowledge and skills and develop positive
attitudes.
 Develop an ability to analyse problems and to work with others.
 Meet the challenge of changes in technology.

10.  Maintain standards of health care at acceptable level.
 Help in setting standards of performance.
 Motivate staff for better patient care.
 Meet new needs of the community.
 To assist the nursing educator in increasing the teaching effectiveness.
 To develop leadership potential in nurses.
 To promote the development of knowledge, skills and attitudes.
 To enhance the nursing practice, thus improving health care to public.

11. NEEDS
 Keep up to date with new concepts and developments in health fields.
 To increase their basis knowledge, skills and develop positive attitude.
 Develop an ability to analyse problems and to work with others.
 Meet challenges of changes in technology.
 Maintain standards of health care at acceptable levels.
 Help in setting standards of performance.
 Help in career development

12.  Motivate staff for better patient care.
 Meet new needs of the community.
 Safe and effective nursing care.
 Meet the need of the population.
 Update the knowledge.
 Acquire specialized skills of personnel and meet technologic adjuncts.
 Prepare in administrative and leadership positions.
 Shape their own density.

13. FUNCTIONS
 To test the particulars ability to do formal academic study.
 To shape or support university educational policies and practices.
 To ensure the quality of education.
 To grant budget for extension studies.
 To maintain academic standards.
 To meet educational requirements.

14. To meet the health needs and public expectations.
 To develop the practicing abilities of the nurse.
 To improve the communication between the participants, faculty,
community, and health sector.

15. METHODS USED FOR CONTINUING EDUCATION

22. PRINCIPLES
 Provisions for school and nursing faculty involvement in planning and
teaching the continuing nursing education courses tends to maintain high
educational standards for the programme.
 An adequate staff is essential to planning, implementing and evaluating a
programme which is based on learning needs and which has an impact on
the quality of nursing care provided.

23. Staff services are required with sufficient talents and numbers to
implement the planned programme:
- Advisory.
- Secretarial.
- Administrative.
- Supportive
- Assistance with
research, publicity, questionnaire, evaluation
tools, data analysis, computer programming.

24.  Responsibility of the Director of Continuing Nursing Education are:-
 Determination of learning needs of the nurse population.
 Development and implementation of a program to meet
these needs.
 An advisory committee has to be appointed which includes:-
 Faculty members from a variety of areas of nursing
practices.
 Directors of hospital nursing services.
 Representatives from the state licensing authority, health

25. department and voluntary agencies.
Medical and allied health professionals.
 Other agencies involved in the delivery of health care
in the community.
 The community may serve as a liaison between the school of nursing and
the health community and fulfil communication and public relations
function for the university.
 Continuing nursing education program may be decentralized or
centralized.

26. DECENTRALIZATION
Faculty of an
academic department
initiate, plan,
implement & evaluate
its own programme of
continuing education.
Programming within
each academic
department.
Depends on public
interested subject
field.

27. CENTRALIZATION
A separate
department or
extension division is
responsible for the
CNE programme of
the entire university.
Financial support is
either university grants
or self-supporting.
Faculty may be of
regular basis or hired
on a contract basis.

28. Elements of Continuing Nursing Education

29. THE TEACHER
 The Teacher’s task is to help the student how to learn, how to approach
situations with an open, inquiring attitude, how to interpret what he
observes.
 The teacher must help the learner to discover new approaches.
 Teacher should act as a role model, friend, guide and philosopher.
 The teacher is a dispenser of wisdom and knowledge.
 The skillful teacher has to aware what is already known and encouraging

30. exploration in those areas yet to be discovered
 The continuing nursing educator has to play multiple roles like:
 Guide and counsellor to the learner
 An arranger and organizer of learning experiences
 Motivator and an encourager of students
 Evaluator of programs
 Producing instructional materials
 Administrative role

31. Nurse Educator

40. Process of Continuing Nursing Education

42. STEPS IN PLANNING CONTINUING
NURSING EDUCATION
 Establishing goals compatible with the purpose or mission of the organization.
 Deciding upon specific objectives consistent with these goals.
 Determining the course of action required to meet the specific objectives.
 Assessing the available resources for establishing the programme.
 Establishing a workable budget, appropriate for the programme.
 Evaluating the results at stated intervals.
 Reassessing he goals and updating the plan periodically.

43. A successful continuing nursing education programme is the result of
careful and detailed planning.
Aspects of continuing nursing education planning:
 Broad planning by institution and agencies responsible for continuing
nursing education.
 Specific planning by individuals for their own continuing education.

44.  Planning is essential to:
- Meet the nursing needs.
- Use available resources.
- Meet needs at all levels i.e., local, state, regional, national, and
international.
-Avoid duplication and fragmentation of efforts.
- Help keep at a minimum any gaps in meeting the continuing
education needs of the nurses.

45. RESEARCHES IN CNE
 Nurses who continue their education in the
field of enjoy marked professional
advantages.
 An increasing number of studies are
evaluating the effects of continuing nurse
education on practice.

46. SETTING RESEARCH INTO PRACTICE
 Setting research into practice is not as simple as choosing an intervention
and hoping for best.
 Administrative or financial policies may exists within organizations that
act as disincentives to improving the practice of individuals.
 Interventions should ideally be tailored to an individual’s stage of change.

47. ROLES OF THE NURSE
 Applies adult learning principles when helping nurses learn new skills or
information.
 Use Sensitive to the learning deficits of the nursing staff and creatively
minimize these difficulties.
 Prepare the nurses readily regarding knowledge and skill deficits.
 Actively seeks out teaching opportunities for nurses.
 Teaching techniques that empower nursing staff.

48. Active involvement in all aspects of planning, implementation, and
evaluation of a continuing nursing education activity.
 Responsible for ensuring that appropriate educational design principles
are used and processes are consistent with the requirements of the ANCC
Accreditation Program.
 Participate with primary nurse planner in assessing and evaluating the
overall effectiveness of the provider unit.

49. SUMMARY
 Till now we discussed about the introduction of continuing education.
Also we discus about
 A definition of continuing education
 Objectives
 Needs of continuing education
 Functions

50.  Methods used for continuing education
 Principles of continuing education
 Elements of Continuing Nursing Education
 Process of Continuing Nursing Education
 Steps in planning
 Researches in CNE
 Setting research into planning.
 Roles of nurse

51. CONCLUSION
 At the end of the seminar I conclude that the students will be able to
understand about continuing education, objectives, needs, functions,
principles, methods and planning of continuing education.

52. BIBLIOGRAPHY
 A Textbook of management of nursing services & education page no. 485-486
 Neeraja KP. Textbook of nursing education 1st edition 2011. Jaypee brothers
page no. 337-349
 Nima bhaskar textbook of nursing education 4th edition 2013 page no. 320-330
 Internet resources
 www.continuingnursingeducation.com
 www.Nursingworld.org/ce

53. THANK YOU