Presentation on continuing education
- 2. INTRODUCTION Staff development is the process directed towards the personal and professional growth of nurses and other personnel while they are in a health care agency. Staff development programs includes 1.inservice education 2.continuing education 3.adult learning
- 3. CONTINUING EDUCATION • “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
- 4. 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
- 5. CONT.. • Help in setting standards of performance • Help in career development • Motivate staff for better patient care • Meet new needs of the community • Help in career development
- 6. TYPES • Mandatory continuing education • Voluntary continuing education • Formal education • Informal education
- 7. FUNCTIONS • To meet the health needs and public expectation. • To develop the practicing abilities of the nurses. • Recruitment function. • Recognizes gaps in their knowledge. • To improve the communication between the participants, faculty, community and health sector.
- 8. CONT • To test the participants ability to do formal academic study. • To ensure the quality of education. • To grant budget for orientation studies. • To maintain academic standards. • To meet educational requirements
- 9. PRINCIPLES • Provision for school and nursing faculty involvement in planning and teaching the continuing nursing education courses tends to maintain high educational standards for the program. • A moderate staff is essential to planning, implementing and evaluating a program which is based on learning needs and which has an impact on the quality of nursing care provided. • Responsibility of the educator of continuing education are: • Determination of learning of the nurse population. • Development and implementation of a program to meet the needs.
- 10. CONT.. • Evaluation of results. • Staff services are resumed with sufficient talents and numbers to implement the planned program. • An advisory committee has to be appointed which includes, faculty members from a variety of areas of nursing practice, director of the hospital, representatives from health department or voluntary agencies. • Continuing nursing education program may be decentralized or centralized. • Financial support I by either university grants or self supporting.
- 12. PROCESS • Establishing goals with purpose • Establishing goals and purposes • Determining needs and practices • Assess the available resources for establishing the program • Plan the budget appropriate for the program • Conducting CNE • Evaluation of CNE