The document discusses the importance of continuing education in nursing, defining it as an ongoing learning process critical for professional development. It highlights the need for accessible educational opportunities to improve practical nursing and address the nursing shortage, emphasizing the role of various educational strategies and government policies. Additionally, it outlines components of career development and the manager's role in supporting nursing careers amid a recognition of the escalating demands for quality nursing services.

1. SMT. DAKUBEN SAREMALJI SANCHETI NURSING INSTITUTE, SUMERPUR
2020
Management of Nursing
Services & Education
Continuing Education & Career Opportunities
Unit – 8 “Professional Advancement”

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Continuing Education & Career Opportunities
INTRODUCTION
CONTINUING EDUCATION: The process of learning that does not stop at any
particular stage is known as continuing education. It includes all learning
opportunities which would be taken up after full-time education has stopped. It is
the continuation of the process of learning or studying which might have been
stopped because of some economic personal ar professional compulsion of an
individual.
DEFINATION: “The American Nurses Association (ANA) has defined
continuing education as continuous learning activities that have been inculcated to
create nursing education and experience of the professional nurse for the
improvement of practical nursing education, administration and ne search or theory
development in nursing education.”
NEED FOR CONTINUING EDUCATION
1. The Kothari Education Commission has suggested that educational
institutions should arrange courses that will make people understand and
solves their problems in life and that will offer wider knowledge and
experience
2. Learning through continuing education is also important for rural people as
they must up date themselves about the rapid advancement of agricultural
and economic techniques just as urban people update themselves of new
commercial techniques
3. The Indian Education Commission has rightly stated that education does not
end with school, but is a lifelong process
4. Continuing education programs provide teaching and learning strategies that
are based upon the learning theory that states that adult learners should
participate in the development of their learning objectives

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5. Continuing education is a necessary requirement for adults today. They can
have a better, healthier and more successful life only if they continue
learning or studying right up to the end of their life
NATIONAL POLICY ON CONTINUING EDUCATION
According to the National Policy on Education (NPE) adult education can be
successfully implemented through a process of continuing education. It is possible
to combine and implement adult and continuing education programme through
vanous ways such as:
1. Setting up continuing education centres rural areas.
2. Educating workers through their employers trade unions and concerned
agencies of government
3. Providing postsecondary education institutions.
4. Providing books, libraries and reading rooms.
5. Using radio, television (TV) and film a mass and group learning media
6. Creating learner' groups and organizations
7. Designing programmes of distance learning
8. Organizing assistance in self-study
9. Organizing vocational training programmes based on needs and interests of
learners
PROGRAMMES OF ACTION ON NATIONAL POLICY ON
EDUCATION
1. A nursing programme of action implemented by the Ministry of Human
Resource Development, Government of India, has been completely
formulated.
2. The continuing education in nursing has the objective to provide education
to ensure literacy for neoliterates and school dropouts for retention of
knowledge skills and continuation of learning beyond elementary education,
and the application of this learning to improve their present living
conditions.
3. Nursing book promotion will be implemented according to policies that have
been framed by the action of NPE. Nursing libraries and reading rooms in

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schools or colleges will be kent opened to the public in the evening and the
additional grants should be given to institutions for the same. This policy
encourages voluntary efforts for the establishment of nursing library and
reading room. TV, radio and films should be used for servine the objectives
spreading the nursing education and recreation.
4. Agencies of continuing education are parallel system of education, such as
ad hoc or short- term courses, Open University, distance eaicanon schemes.
libraries, special part-time courses, special institutions and mass media
Career Development Career development is the implementation of planned
strategies of a nursing career plan. This can be done through complete assessment,
job analysis, education, training, job search and acquisition and work experience.
COMPONENTS OF CAREER DEVELOPMENT
The components of a career development programme are a set of personal
responsibilities called career planning and a set of management responsibilities
called career management.

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MANAGER'S ROLE IN CAREER DEVELOPMENT
The manager plays on important role in career development:
NURSING CAREER REQUIRMENTS

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SCOPE OF NURSING CAREER
Today, the nursing shortage has become a significant problem with a wider
implication in health system. As per the views of Christine Hancock, nursing
shortages are not just a problem for nursing. They are actual health problem in the
system that determines health and social ailments.
Today, nursing in many countries continues to be undervalued and underestimated
work of a female and nurses are given only very less access to resources to make
them efficient in their nursing jobs and careers. Health care has become more
intensive with demands of quality nursing service. Nursing policy-makers in many
countries have already recognized this fact and have made required changes to
engage the best nursing services in numbers and quality.
1. Nurse Anaesthestists.
2. Nurse Education.
3. Staff Nurse.
4. AIDS Care Nurse.
5. Ambulatory care Nurse.
6. Cardiac Rehabilitation Nurse.
7. Correctional Nurse.
8. Gastroenterology Nurse.
9. Genetic Nurse.
10.Infection Control Nurse.
11.Intervenous therapy Nurse.
12.Nephrology Nurse.
13.Neuroloscience Nurse.
14.Occupational Health Nurse.
15.Oncology Nurse.
16.Ophthalmic Nurse.
17.Perioperative Nurse.
18.Orthopaedic Nurse.
19.Rehabilitation Nurse.
20.Forensic Nurse Etc.