The document discusses the educational preparation required to become a nurse. It outlines the various nursing programs available in India, including ANM, GNM, B.Sc, M.Sc, and Ph.D programs. It also discusses the need for continuing nursing education to keep nurses up to date in their field. Finally, it provides an overview of some of the career opportunities available to nurses in India, such as working in hospital nursing services, schools of nursing, and colleges.

1.  What preparation do we need to become
nurse ?

2. EDUCATIONAL PREPARATION
PRESENTED BY
Asif Maniyar
f.Y. M.sc. Nursing
INE, Mumbai.

3. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
Aims
At the end of the seminar on
educational preparation ,continuing
education, career opportunities for
nurses group will understand and
apply this knowledge in clinical as well
as in educational settings

4. Objectives
 On completion of seminar, students will be able to
Understand meaning, need of educational
preparation.
 Enumerate various patterns of nursing education.
 Define continuing education.
 Philosophy of continuing nursing education.
 Enumerate the features, needs and functions of
continuing education.
 Understand the current educational preparations in
nursing.
 Current opportunities for nurses in India.
and in abroad.

5. INTRODUCTION
 Educational preparation for nurses means
preparing the nurses at university level and
school of nursing, at hospital level and at
community level.
 Nursing is interpreted in different ways by
different peoples. it is still thought by many
people that nursing is only taking care of
sick people. no medical service is complete
without nursing or without trained nurses.

6. NEED FOR EDUCATIONAL
PREPARATION

7. NEED FOR EDUCATIONAL PREPARATION
 Nursing comprises of several responsibilities
like dealing with
patients of medical illness
post surgeries,
psychiatric or pediatric patients
 Nursing also involve in other duties like
maintaining patients
dispensing medication
operating room management
many other jobs.
 Demand of nurses is increased

8. STATISTICS OF NURSES (INC 1986)
 Last 40 years have produced
B.sc. and M.sc. Nurses 4271
General nurses around 200000
ANM/FHW 100000
 Studies reveals dissatisfaction with staffing
because they are overloaded with work this is
because of the lack of nursing personnel so
there is need for educational preparation of
nurses

9. STATISTIC OF NURSES INC1986
MSC &BSC,
4712
GNM, 200000
ANM, 100000

10. TOTAL NO. REG. NURSES
(INC ANNUAL REPORT 17-18)
ANM
8,56,984
RN&RM,
20,43,289
LHV, 56,433

11. BASIC CRITERIA FOR SELECTION IN
NURSING
Candidates, who wish to apply for
nursing courses should pass physics
and chemistry and biology as main
subjects.

12. CURRENT EDUCATIONAL PATTERNS
EDUCATIONAL
PATTERNS
NON
UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY
PROGRAMMES

13. NON UNIVERSITY PROGRAMMES
Basic - ANM-GNM
 Trained dais(birth attendant)
 Lady health visitor course
 Post-basic/post certificate short-
term courses and diploma
programmes

14. 1.TRAINED DAIS (BIRTH ATTENDANT)
 The Dai training became full fledged during
post independence period.
 No age limit
 Duration of training was 30 days.
 This training was done at sub centre and the
equipments provided by UNICEF.

15. ARTICLE ON DAIS
 Way to healthy delivery
 Dais have been an important part of the process
of childbirth. However, the trend of institutional
deliveries has sidelined them. These traditional
midwives can be trained for a role in the national
rural health scheme to lower the rate of maternal
mortality, writes Usha Rai

16. DAI SANGATHAN
In Gujarat the Dai Association was
established in 2005 by the dais and
civil society organizations to increase
their visibility, capabilities and to
advocate for a more significant role in
the public health programme.

17. 2. AUXILIARY NURSE MIDWIFE
 In 1950 Indian Nursing Council made teaching
methods standard for nurses .
 The first course was started at St. Mary’s
Hospital Punjab, 1951. duration was 2 year
 In 1997 - curriculum was revised to have 1.5
year of vocationalized ANM program
 Qualification – raised from 7th to matriculation

18. 3. LADY HEALTH VISITOR COURSE
 Training of LHV course continued post
independence.
 The syllabus was prepared and developed by
INC in 1951.
 The entrance qualification was matriculation.
 The duration was two and a half years which was
subsequently reduced to 2 years.

19. Health visitors are mainly concerned
with helping to ensure that people's
domestic behaviour is sanitary
and, hygienic and beneficial to the
welfare of themselves and their
families, particularly to their children.

20. 4. GENERAL NURSING AND MIDWIFERY COURSE
 In 1951,syllabus was prescribed by INC.
 In 1954 public health was integrated into basic
nursing course.
 First revision of course was done in 1963.
 The duration of the course was 3 years.
 Three year integrated program of GNM was
prescribed in 1982.

21. 5. POST-BASIC/POST CERTIFICATE SHORT-TERM
COURSES AND DIPLOMA PROGRAM
Psychiatric nursing
Cardiothoracic nursing
Critical care nursing
Neonatal nursing
Neuroscience nursing

22. 2. UNIVERSITY-LEVEL PROGRAMMES
 Basic- B.Sc (Nursing)
 Post-Basic B.Sc (Regular)
 M.Sc. (Nursing)
 M.phil (Nursing)
 Ph.D.

23. 1.BASIC B.Sc. NURSING
 First university program started just before
independence
 INC prescribed the syllabus which has been
revised three times,
 At present the BSc Nursing program which is
recommended by the INC is of four years
 Basic qualification of the course is higher
secondary education

24. 2. POST BASIC BSC NURSING
 Two years post basic certificate B.Sc.(N)
program was started in December 1962.
 Basic qualification is nurses with diploma
in general and midwifery
First started by university of Trivandrum.
Duration of course is 2 years.

25. 3. POST BASIC NURSING BY DISTANCE
EDUCATION MODE.
 In 1985 Indira Gandhi National open university
was established this pattern.
 In 1992 Post Basic BSc Nursing program was
established.
 3 years duration course, recognized by INC

26. 4.POST-GRADUATE EDUCATION
MSC NURSING
 First course of masters of nursing was started at
RAK College of Nursing in 1959 and in 1969 in
CMC Vellore.
 The basic qualification is B.Sc. nursing.
 Duration of course is 2 year.

27. 5. M.PHIL
In 1986 one year full time and
two years program
Basic qualification – Master in nursing
 In 1986 started in RAK College of nursing Delhi.

28. PHD
 From 1992 Ph D in nursing is available in
India.
 Ph.D. in Nursing is a 4-year full-time
course.
 Eligibility for the course is MSc or M.Phil.

29. “Let us never consider ourselves as
finished
nurses….. We must be learning all our
lives”
-Florence Nightingale

30. CONTINUING
NURSING EDUCATION

31. INTRODUCTION
opportunities for
reading, study,
and training to
any person and
adult following
their completion
of full time
school or college
programme.
educational
activity primarily
designed to keep
the registered
nurses abreast in
their particular
field of interest .
Continuing
education

32. DEFINITION
 ‘’Continuing education is all the
learning activities that occurs after an
individual has completed his basic
education’’
Cooper
 “That education which builds on previous
education’’
Shannon

33. NEED FOR CONTINUING EDUCATION
Phenomena of change
Altered professional role
Effective and wise leadership and
competent practitioners
To fulfill needs of nurse practitioner

34. PHILOSOPHY

35. Encompasses
various aspects of
life not limited to
professional
education
It is concerned
with the
development of
nurse as person
practitioner as
citizen
It focuses on
individual learners
philosophy for his
basic belief
Nursing
Educ
ation
Life

36. PLANNING FOR CONTINUING
EDUCATION
Planning is the key stone for the
administrative process.
Without adequate planning,
continuing education offerings are
fragmented.

37. Planning Process
Steps of
planning
Planning
formula

38. PLANNING FORMULA
What is
to be
done?
Why is it
necessary?
How is
it to be
done?
Where is it to
be done?
Who should
do the job?
Planning
formula

39. STEPS OF PLANNING
Establishing goals compatible with the
Purpose or mission of the organization.
 Deciding upon specific objectives
consistent with these goals.
 Determining the course of action
required to meet the specific objectives.

40. Assessing the available resources for
establishing the programme.
Establishing a workable budget,
 Evaluating the results at stated
intervals.
Reassessing he goals and updating
the
plan periodically.

41. •BARRIERS
Time constraints.
Financial constraints.
Personal or organizational
resistance.
Inflexible organizational policies.
Staffing issues.
Family commitments.

42. STUDY ON CONTINUING EDUCATION
 Challenges in nursing continuing education: A
qualitative study
 By - Jalil Eslamian,1 Mahin Moeini,1 and Marzie
Soleimani
 This was an explorative descriptive study
conducted on nursing continuing education
challenges among nurses of three hospitals
Kashani, Alzahra, and Noor va Hazrate and the
education authorities of Isfahan University of
Medical Sciences, Iran

43.  Sampling was purposive, and the
participants comprised the nurses who had
to undergo continuing education.
 Result –
This study showed that the present
approach of nurses’ continuing education
needs modification so as to meet nurses’
needs
management and planning of education
should be based on a new approach
concentrating on nurses’ needs

44.  In relation evaluation of continuing education from
the viewpoint of nursing personnel, showed that
28.2% of the nurses were dissatisfied with the time
table of educational programme.
 (66.7%) also mentioned lecture method and group
discussion as the most appropriate methods of
education.
 52.3% mentioned the relevancy between the
content of continuing education programs and
their professional needs as average.
 Only 12.7% claimed that educational assistive
equipments are used in education.
.

45.  About 75.4% believed that new books which
are needed in nursing did not exist in
hospitals’ libraries, and 10.1% stated that
educational CDs are available for personnel.
 47.8% of participants believed that the place
of educational classes was highly
appropriate,
 47% mentioned that timely use of
educational assistive equipment was highly
appropriate

46. Career Opportunities

47. CAREER OPPORTUNITIES
For the nurse opportunities means to
develop his /her own career in nursing.
The Bureau of labour and statistic
predicts job for RN will grow 19% by
2022

48. CAREER OPPORTUNITIES
1) In India –
Hospital Nursing services
Nursing services in school of nursing
Nursing services in the college of nursing
Nursing services in the college of nursing
In community health nursing

49. HOSPITAL NURSING SERVICES
 Staff nurse - GNM/ psychiatric Nursing
diploma
 Senior staff Nurse - G.N.M./B.sc.nursing
and experience 5years as staff nurse
 Nursing superintendent grade II –
experience as senior staff nurse
 Nursing superintendent grade I – should
have experience as nursing superintendent
grade II

50. NURSING SERVICES IN SCHOOL OF NURSING
 a) Nursing tutor – B.sc. nursing or M.sc
Nursing or diploma in nursing education and
administration
 b) Clinical instructor - B.sc. nursing or M.sc.
Nursing with or without experience
 c) Principal, school of nursing – M.sc.
nursing or B.sc. nursing and should have
teaching experience not less than 5 years

51. NURSING SERVICES IN THE COLLEGE OF NURSING
a) Principal, college of nursing –
M.sc. Nursing or equivalent degree
or PhD in Nursing or the other
doctorate degree and teaching
experience in the college not less
than 5 years
b) Lecturer –M.sc. nursing
c) Senior lecturer –experience as
the junior lecturer

52. NURSING SERVICES IN THE COLLEGE OF NURSING
 a) Principal, college of nursing – M.sc. Nursing
or equivalent degree or PhD in Nursing or the
other doctorate degree and teaching experience
in the college not less than 5 years
 b) Lecturer –M.sc. nursing
 c) Senior lecturer –experience as the junior
lecturer

53.  d) Assistant lecturer –M.sc. nursing or PhD
nursing with any specialty and should have
experience in the college of nursing not less than
5 years.
 e) Clinical Instructor –B.sc. nursing or M.sc.
nursing with or without experience.
 f) Professor – M.sc. nursing or PhD in nursing
with any specialty and teaching experience not
less than 5 years.

54. 4. IN COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING
 ) Community health nurse /community
nursing officer – B.sc.nursing or G.N.M
 Community Health Officers (CHOs)to lead a
primary care provider team consisting of
female health workers (ANMs), male health
worker (MPW), ASHAs, etc.
 b) Health supervisor
The Public Health Supervisor promotes public
health through planning, coordinating,
evaluating, and mentoring professional
public health

55. 5. Nursing services in Industry
specialty nursing practice that
provides for and delivers health and
safety programs and services to
workers, worker populations, and
community groups.

56. NURSE PRACTITIONER
 The Indian Nursing Council has initiated a
Post Graduate Nurse Practitioner Critical
Care Programme, the first Postgraduate
nursing residency program in India.
 The programme is being approved by
Government of India and launched by the
Health Minister and it is announced in the
INC website.
 Duration : 2 years
 Qualification: B.Sc. Nursing with 1 year
clinical experience

57. IN ABROAD
 1 Canada and USA
The CRNE/CPNRE and NCLEX RN are
some of the Licensure exams that an Indian
nurse has to pass before becoming RN in
Canada or the US. Also, how well a
candidate fares in English language is also
checked.

58.  2. In Australia,
 NMBA (The Nursing and Midwifery Board of
Australia) is a board that takes care of aspects
related to nurses from abroad.
 An Indian nurse is required to complete a
registered nurses program via Initial
Registration for International Nurses. After
completing it, one may easily get registered at
the AHPRA (Australian Health Practitioner
Regulation Agency).

59.  3 UK
The main board that Indian nurses have to
deal with is- NMC (Nursing and Midwifery
Council). ONP (Overseas Nursing Program)
is also conducted to help Indian nurses get
registered in UK

60. 4 Ireland
An Bord Altranais Nursing Board is the main
authority that deals with RN activities in
Ireland. This authority board recommends
some adaptation courses and programs for
Indian nurses to get registered in Ireland.
One has to complete the bridging program
to proceed to registration process

61.  New Zealand
 NZNC (New Zealand Nursing Council) is the
authority in NZ. It is this board that comes up with
Competency Assessment Programs for nurses from
abroad. One has to pass this program to get
registered as a nurse in New Zealand

62. CONCLUSION
 Nursing careers are in more demand than ever
before. Nursing careers are extremely versatile
and very flexible. The advancement and
progression of the nurses is a priority nowadays.
Staffs who display fervour and potential in taking
on a larger role in nursing may be upgraded
through a number of pathways. Nursing is an
important major because nurses must maintain a
good sense of character and responsibility in a
variety of environments while caring for their
patients.

63. SUMMARY
 We have seen
preparation for nursing education
Criteria for nursing education
Current educational patterns in india and in abroad
Concept of continuing education
Definition of continuing education
Need for continuing education
Philosophy and planning continuing education
Barriers of continuing education
Career opportunities for nurses

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65. PREVIOUS QUESTIONS
 Short note on continuing education programme
(winter 2016)

66. ASSIGNMENT
 What is educational preparation, explain continuing
education, need for continuing education in
nursing?

67. THANK YOU