Nursing education

1. MEANING OF EDUCATION
• Derived from two Latin words
• Educare– to lead out
• Educere – to bring up or train.
• “Educatum” - act of teaching
• Derivation denotes
“growth from the within”
• “e” & “duco” – “e” means out
off & duco means to lead.

2. MEANING OF EDUCATION
• Education in the traditional sense means
controlling or disciplining the behaviour of an
individual.
• Making manifest the innate potential in a
child.

3. Definition
• “Education is the natural, harmonious and
progressive development of mans innate
powers.”
• -
• --- Pestalozzi.

4. Definition
• “Education” is the all round drawing out of
the best in the child and man-body-mind and
spirit.
• - M.K.Gandhi

5. Definition
Education is the
manifestation of divine
perfection already
existing in man.

6. Definition

7. Definition
• Education is the development of all those
capacities in the individual which enable him
to control his environment and fulfill his
possibilities.
John Dewey.

8. Definition

10. Nursing education
It is a professional education which is consciously
and systematically planned and implemented
through discipline and aims for harmonious
development of the physical, intellectual, social,
emotional, spiritual and aesthetic powers or
abilities of the student in order to render
professional nursing care to the people of all the
ages, in all the phases of health and illness, in a
variety of settings, in the best or highest possible
manner.

11. Education as a process
• Education as bipolar process

12. Education as a process
• Education as tripolar

13. • EDUCATION AS MULTIPOLAR PROCESS
Tripolar
New self learning concept influenced by non
formal and formal types.

14. Characteristics of education
• Education is a purposeful activity
• It is a deliberate process
• Education is child centered process
• Education is planned activity based on
objectives
• Education is sociological process
• Education process is influenced by society,
social changes and technological
advancements
• Education is life long process
• Education is developing knowledge, skill
and attitudes.

15. Aims of Education
1.Utilitarian aim- Is concerned with providing
knowledge and skill required by the child for
leading his day to day life.

16. 2.Education for vocation
• The primary need of man is food, clothing,
shelter, industrialization and mechanization
of the present age has further emphasized the
claim of vocational aim.

17. 3.Education for knowledge
• Knowledge is power by which things are done.
Education should be the acquisition of
knowledge. Education is knowledge that has
enabled humanity to make progress.

18. 4.Education for culture
• Knowledge for knowledge sake has been
advocated by many.

19. 5.Education for character

20. 6.Education for leisure
• Leisure is time meant for enjoyment &recreation.
• To set up standards and develop tastes which will
help to determine the choice of proper forms of
recreation and pleasure.
• Use leisure time properly.

21. 7.Physical health and social wellbeing.
Education prepare the child to lead a healthy life
through providing knowledge required for healthy life
through providing the knowledge required for a healthy
living and helping him to develop a positive attitude
towards health

22. 8.Self realization
• Self-realization helps the child to realize his
strengths, weakness, opportunities and threats so
that they can exert a good control over his life by
strengthening the weakness.

23. 9.Mental and emotional development
Education should train the child by giving
adequate opportunities for mental and
emotional development.

24. 10.Intellectual aim
Education provides enough opportunities to
develop the innate intelligence through
education will enable the child to lead the
independent life with confidence.

25. 11.Citizenship
• Education helps the children to grow as productive
citizens by following the social and moral standards
set by the society.

26. 12.Moral developement
• Moral values like honesty, justice, truthfulness,
purity, goodness, courage, reverence, punctuality,
self-confidence, belief in systematic organization.

27. 13.Autonomous development
Education for individual development
• A scheme of education is ultimately to be valued by
it success in fostering the highest degree of
individual excellence.

28. 14.International development
Education is a universal process and it helps in creating
universal process and understanding. The progress we
achieved in the field of education is the result of
combined efforts of the people from different
countries.

29. 15.Harmonious development
• it will help the child to deal effectively with
the problems and uncertain life styles.
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30. 16.Education for self efficacy
• social efficacy implies social awareness,
economy productivity and cultural and moral
refinement.

31. • Self education aim

32. Aims of nursing education
• Harmonious development
• Inculcating the right attitude
• Knowledge and skill aim
• Emphasis on high-tech-high touch approach
• Prepare students to take up a proactive in learning
• Professional development
• Assist in developing promising career
• Social aim
• Citizenship
• To prepare global nurses
• Leadership aim.

33. Functions of education
 To complete the socialization process
 To transmit cultural heritage
 Formation of social personality
 Reformation of attitude
 For occupational placement
 Conferring of status
 Encourages a spirit of competition

34. Functions of education
Trains in skills that are required by the economy
Fosters participant democracy
Imparts values
Acts as an integrative force
Specific values in professions imparted by education

35. Principles of Education
1.Education is pervasive
It involves everybody. A true learning involves the application of
whatever learned whenever and wherever necessary
2.Goal Oriented
Learn to achieve certain goal.The goal may be differing based on individual
needs.
3.Continuous process.
No limit for education.It is a lifelong process.

36. 4.Modification of behaviour
Aim to bring desirable changes. It helps to remove unwanted behaviour
5.Flexible
It cannot be rigid.Based on many factors especially related to learner.It should
consider the individual difference and adopt suitable method.
6. For all group
Opportunities are availablefor allage group to undergo educational process.
7.It is a group activity
It is interaction between the teacher & student.

37. 8.It is a social process
Close cooperation of all members are essential.
9.Education is dynamic
It is an active process.
10.It is science & art.
It is a body of systematized knowledge,
hence a science.
It also includes the art of teaching,
learning & imparting knowledge.
11.It is multidisciplinary.
Draws knowledge from all disciplines