This document provides information on continuing nursing education (CNE). It defines CNE and discusses its purposes, aims, need, functions, features, principles, elements, forms, process and evaluation. The key points are: - CNE helps nurses maintain and improve skills and knowledge to provide better patient care. It includes educational activities after initial training. - The purposes of CNE include gaining new knowledge/skills, professional growth, relicensure requirements, and better job performance. - CNE needs to be developed by nurses and conducted within nursing education to ensure it meets community health needs. - Evaluation of CNE programs is important to assess the impact on nurses' learning, behavior, and patient outcomes

1. CONTINUING NURSING
EDUCATION
Ms.REVATHY.A
Asst.Professor
SGNC

2. INTRODUCTION
CNE provides information and skills of current issues, prepare for discussions
and help to develop problem solving skills.
Continuing nursing education programme should be developed by nurses
and conducted within nursing or in general education system in cooperation
with the nurses.

3. DEFINITION
“Continuing education of health workers includes the
experiences after initial training which help health care
personal to maintain and improve existing and acquire new
competences relevant to the performance of their
responsibilities. Appropriate continuing education should
reflect community needs in health and local to planned
improvement in the health of the community”
-KP Neeraja

4.  Continuing Nursing Education is planned educational activities
intended to build upon the educational and experimental bases
of the professional nurse for the enhancement of practice,
education, administration, and research or theory development to
the end of improving the health of the public.
- American Nursing Association
 “That education which builds on previous education”
-Shannon

5. “Continuing education is all the learning activities that occur
often an individual has completed his basic education”
- Copper

6. PURPOSES
To gain knowledge, skills and attitude that will
enable them to perform their jobs better.
To learn new nursing roles, techniques or skills.
To provide for self-development and professional
growth.
To show evidence of competencies relicensure.

7. AIMS
Improvement of professional practice.
To motivate the staff to seek the latest knowledge.
To keep the nurses with the nurse's latest
development of technologies.
Evaluate the effectiveness of the approved units
activities.
The association can contribute to the provision of
quality of nursing care by facilitating professional
growth.

8. NEED OF CNE
To ensure safe and effective nursing care.
To meet the needs of population and should to
the needs of service.
Development of Nurses will occur be updating
their knowledge and prepare them for
specialization.
For career advancement.

9. Professional roles are altered as society changes and as new
knowledge and technologies emerge.
To acquire specialized skills of personnel and meet technologies
adjuncts.
Clinical specialists are needed for direct patient care and for teaching
and consultative roles to help the students and staff nurses to reach
higher level of competency.
Nurses with research aptitudes and preparation are needed.
Nursing functions require a high degree of skill knowledge,
competence and educational preparation.
The demand for specialized Nursing services is increasing more
rapidly.

10. Nurses in administrative positions need to increase their
understanding of the administrative process and to design effective
methods of maximizing the contribution of individual helps to
provide Nsg services to patients.
Planned programmers are needed to increase their competence as
practitioners
Needs for additional preparation for the positions are already
holding or to prepare themselves for other positions.
It provides opportunities for educational growth compatible with
the realities of both work situation and the home responsibilities.

11. In the world scientific advancement , technological innovations,
social changes are occurring rapidly, and new patterns of health
care personnel are emerging to meet these needs and demands
qualified nurses are essential.
To provide and prepare faculty who see continuing Nursing
education as a personal responsibility as well as professional and
university responsibility.
To provide a varity of continuing Nursing education opportunities
of high quality to nurses in both education and service changes.

12. FUNCTIONS
Leads to improve professional practice.
Aid in update knowledge and skills at all the levels of organization.
Keep abreast of latest trends and development in techniques.
Equips with knowledge of current research and developments.
Help me in learning new knowledge and maintain old competencies.
Develops interest and job satisfaction amongst the staff.

13. Develops sense of responsibility for being competent and
knowledgeable.
Create supportive environment with opportunities for growth and
communication.
Helping adjusting to change.
Aids in developing leadership skills,motivation and better
attitudes.
Encourages in achieving self-development and self confidence

14. FEATURES OF CNE
Unified Approach
Relationship with other systems.
Comprehensiveness
Relevance in planning
Appropriateness in implementation.
Evaluation of programme effectiveness and
participant growth.
Competent people handle the responsibility
of conducting the programme.

15. 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 programme.
An adequate 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.
Staff services are required with sufficient qualities and number to
implement the planned program(Advisory, Secretariat,
Administrative, Supportive, Assistant with research, publicity,
evaluation tools, data analysis and computer programming)

16. Continuing nursing education programme may be
decentralized(i.e., Faculty of an academic department would
initiate, plan. implement and evaluate its own program of
continuing education) or centralized (i.e., Separate
department or extension division is responsible for the
continuing nursing education programme for the entire
university) maybe a combination of both.
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17. ELEMENTS
1
Learner
2
Teacher/ Nurse Educator

18. Learner: is identified as a nurse as a person and as a citizen.
Identified the 3 aspects of lifelong learning
 Diversity as a part of learning process which contributes to
the development of the individual.
 The learner plays different role in his life.
 Self directed learning

19. Teacher /Nurse Educator: the role & function of a teacher
includes
 To follow the concept of lifelong learning and encourage nurse to pursue
the same.
 Being aware of the source of information.
 Should be role model.
 Creative teaching is essential.
 Educator must show interest and concern for every member of the class.
 Being aware of learning is unique.
 Play multiple roles- guide, motivator, evaluator & administrator
 Help the member to solve the problems and motivate them
 Instil confidence & adequacy in students.

20. FORMS
OF
CNE
Formal
 Staff Development Program
 Short Term course r/t the professional areas
 Recognized forms of post-secondary learning
activities.
 Degree credit courses by students
 Under degree career training
 Work force training
 Formal personal enrichment courses
 Experimental learning as applied to problem-
solving

21. Informal
Self-directed learning
Online certification programs
Case report studies

22. PROCESS
OF
CNE Establishing goal
& philosophy
Establishing
objectives
Determining
needs & priority
Assess available
sources
Plan budget
Selection of
resources
Implementing
Evaluation

23. 1) Establishing goals with the purpose or philosophy
Purpose based on the learning needs, so it must be reviewed by time
to time and states as appropriate.
It provides a structure to the planning of programme.
Ask;
What is to be done?
What is it necessary?
How is to be done?
Where is to be done?
When is to be done?
Who should do the job?

24. 2) Establish goals & objectives
 The objective must be specific and it is a desired end
accomplishment.
 It help the nurse in identifying and meeting the current
learning needs.
 Helps to identify the influence of societal changes in the
practice.
 Help to promote the leader ship quality.
 Helps to improve critical thinking.

25. 3) Determine needs &
priorities
Assessments of needs should be done by survey,
through mailed questionnaire, interview etc.
After assessing the needs, prioritization of needs
to be done.

26. 4) Assess available sources
 Careful assessment of faculty, facilities and finance are
important.

27. 5) Plan the budget
Separate budget is required for each specific activity.
Budget requires ascertaining all the anticipated costs of the
offering.
 Sometimes budget for program will be sanctioned by
government, university grants or fee collected from
participants.

28. 6) Selection of resources
ⴲ The resources should be categorized as financial
resource, human resource, facilities, equipment,
and supplies.

29. 7) Implementing
the program
¤ The program must be
implemented as per the set
of objectives and the
resource available.
¤ Develop an agenda
¤ Prepare correspondence to
guest speakers
¤ Conduct the educational
program.

30. 8) Evaluating the program
Evaluation must do at
the end of the
program to identify
the successful
implementation.
Can be use rating
scale, interviews,
attitude test,
observation of skills,
questionnaire, pre and
post-tests or
audio/video tapes.

31. DEFINITION - EVALUATION
Evaluation is the process of finding out how the development
or training process has affected the individual, team and the
organization.
Evaluation is a value judgement on an observation,
performance test or indeed any data whether directly
measured or inferred.

32. TYPES
Formative
• Used to modify/ improve the
professional development
program.
• Done b/w the intervals of CNE
Summative
• It determine the overall
effectiveness of a program.
• Done at the end of the program.

33. LEVELS
1. Reaction
2.
Learning
3. Behaviour
& Action
4. Results