PPT ON CONTINUING EDUCATION

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1. INTRODUCTION

• Continuing education in nursing implies to learning beyond the basic educational programme. These programmer are designed to promote the development of knowledge, skills and attitude for the enhancement of nursing practice, thus improving of the public health.

2. CONCEPT

• To provide scientific principles and skills  in health care system.
• To assist the individual or family to achieve their potential for self direction.
• To bring change in the behavior of professionals in a desirable manner, so that the Nurses become mature, self sufficient, intellectual, culturally refined, socially efficient and spiritually advance.

 3. DEFINITION

•  “Continuing education is all the learning action that occurs after an individual has completed her basic education” 
•  “The education which builds on previous education”                                            

4. CHARACTERISTICS OF ADULT LEARNERS

• Adult learner is responsible, mature  and self-directed.
• Adults are highly motivated to learn and make voluntary decision to learn.
• Adult learning is need based.
• Psychological characteristics also affect on the learning process of adults. Difficulty in reading due to poor eyesight or decline in the physical power limits the learning process of adults.
• Adult learners are practical and seek problem solutions.
• Adult have a reservoir of life experiences.
• Adults need to be convinced, that they too can learn because they feel they are too old to learn.
• If the learning situations are difficult adults feel easily threatened.
• Adult learner’s life style revolves around her family and career so the learning is paced accordingly.
• Adult learner learns effectively in an interactive process.

5. AIMS

• Improvement of client through upgrading the services rendered with scientific principles.
• Acquisition of new knowledge, improvement in performance, development of skills.
• To develop right concept of client care and maintain high standard of nursing.

6. OBJECTIVES

• Training for better skills development.
• Staff development.
• To develop leader and professional managers

7. NEED

• To ensure safe and effective nursing care, nurses need to keep abreast with interest, knowledge and technical advances.
• To meet the needs of population and should cater to the needs of service.
• Development of nurses will occur by updating their knowledge and prepare them for specialization.
• For career advancement.
• Professional needs related to changes in society and technology.
• Nurses in administration positions need to increase their understanding of the administrative process because Nursing functions require a high degree of skill, knowledge, competence and educational preparation.
• To provide and prepare faculty who see continuing nursing education as a personal responsibility as well as professional responsibility.
• To provide a variety of continuing nursing education opportunities of high quality to nurses in both education and service.

7. RESPONSIBILITY FOR CONTINUING EDUCATION IN NURSING.

Though it is the responsibility of each individual to update her/his knowledge in the area of work but the following are responsible for continuing education for nursing personnel:
             1.   Educational institution ,
             2.   The nurse herself
             3.    Employers
             4.    Professional organization

8. PRINCIPLES OF ADULT LEARNING/CONTINUING EDUCATION IN NURSING

1. There should be Provision to maintain high quality education for the program through involving    teaching faculty as well as clinical supervisors in planning.
2. Adequate staffs is essential in planning, implementation and evaluation of program which as an impact on the quality of nursing care process 
3. Responsibility of the Director of the continuing nursing education :

• To assess the learners needs & nurse’s population. 
• To develop and implement the program to meet their needs.
•  To evaluate  results.

4.Staff services are required with sufficient talents and numbers to implement the planned program  e.g.

• Advisory Committee 
• Secretarial Staff
• Administrative
• Supportive  Staff

5. Assistance  with :

•  Research
•  Publicity
• Questionnaire
• Evaluation tools
• Data analysis
• Computer programming

6. Extension Division :

• Financial support by the university grant or self supporting.
• Regular Teaching Faculty may be assigned to continuing education, but for periods they will get extra remuneration or university faculty may be hired on  contract basis to teach special course .

9. ASSESSMENT OF CONTINUING NURSING EDUCATION
Assessment is done by assessing the :
    1. Needs of education
    2. Priorities of continuing  nursing     education
    3. Resources used to fulfill the goals

1. ASSESSMENT OF NEEDS
It is done by assessing:
  (i)     Needs of organization
  (ii)    Personal needs
  (iii)   Society needs

10. PROCESS OF CONTINUING EDUCATION

• Identify the learning needs of the nursing personnel
• Setting goals and defining specific objectives.
• Planning and organizing course and designing learning experience.
• Assessing available resources.
• Establishing a workable budget.
• Implementing plan of teaching.
• Evaluating the programme.
• May restart the process

11. RESEARCH  IN CONTINUING EDUCATION

• Nursing is a knowledge based profession and technological expertise and clinical decision making are the qualities of our health care system.
• Continuing education health program are one of the ways to help us to remain current in nursing skills, knowledge and theory.
• Continuing education involves Formal and Organized educational program.
• Places - Universities, Hospitals, State nurses associations, Professional organizations, Education and health care institute
• Evidence based nursing and evidence based nursing practice are examples of nursing research and the knowledge developed in research that its application in nursing field is done through involvement of nurses in continuing education program.
• University offered courses and trained the nurses in research and practices program such as:-Program on caring for older adults with dementia and Program on safe medicine practices offered by hospital
• Purposes upgrade/ update your knowledge about the latest research and practice development Helps you to specialize in a particular area when practice and Teach new skills and technique

12. RESEARCH

• Through research nurse enter in their practices setting focuses on the adult or child
• The chronically or acutely ill or
•  The home hospital
• And ongoing education provides information about multiple carrier paths and opportunities.

13. FOR MORE INFORMATION REFER TO PPT.

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