The document discusses in-service education and continuing nursing education. It defines in-service education as education provided to nurses while working to support professional growth. The aims are to improve skills and knowledge with changing needs. Methods include demonstrations, conferences, workshops and seminars. Components are orientation, skill training, and leadership development. Continuing education occurs after basic education and includes courses to update skills and knowledge for career advancement and meeting community needs. Planning involves establishing goals, objectives, assessing resources and evaluating outcomes.

1. Students
Heartly welcome

2. SUB :Trends & Professional
Adjustment
NEWS
live

3. Page 1

4. Session Objectives :
After completion of this topic ,learners will be able to :
- define In service education
- list out aims of In service education
- explain components of In service education
- describe the term continuing education
- enlist importance of continuing education in nursing
- enumerate steps of continuing nursing education

5. INTRODUCTION :
 In service education is the continuation of education
when the employee is in service.
 It is an organized educational programme to assist
the individuals in an organization in attaining new
skills and knowledge, gaining increased level of
competence and growing professionally.
 In service education may be part of any program of
staff development.

6. DEFINITION
1. "In service education is a planned education
activities intended to build upon the educational and
experimental basis of the professional nurse for the
enhancement of practice, education, administration
and research or theoretical development aimed at
improving the health of the public."
-The American NursesAssociation

7. CONT……
2. The education given to a nurse while in service for
her professional growth is called in-service
education.
-N.N. Yalayasamy.

8. AIMS :
 It helps to improve professional growth and
development.
 It gives a chance for promotion for the staff
members.
 The individual nurses upgrade their knowledge and
skills.
 It enhances to improve the performance while
rendering care to the clients.

9. CHARACTERISTICS :
 It is provided with job setting
 It is planned and ongoing.
 It is designed to meet their demands of changing
needs like scientifically, technically, medically in
respect to patient care and treatment.
 Inservice education mainly focus on efficiency and
quality of services.

10. PURPOSE :
 Helps to improve profesional competence.
 Keep the nursing personnel abreast of the latest
trends and development of new techniques.
 Helps to update the knowledge and skills at all
levels.
 Nurses can update the knowledge regarding current
research and development.
 Develops interest and job satisfaction among the
staff.
 Encourage the employees in achieving
staff development and self confidence.
 Develops leadership skills, motivation and better
attitudes

11. NEEDS FOR INSERVICE EDUCATION :
 Needs for development of manual, behavioural and
communication skills essential for execution of their
jobs.
 Needs for development of decision making and
managerial skills.
 Needs for introduction to their routine job, which are
expanding new, higher, complicated.
 Needs for development of leadership skills
 Needs for development of analytical and innovative
thinking for investigating the potentialities and
efficiency of their job.

12. Methods of In service Education :
Demonstrations
Conference
Class room observations
Committee
Field trip
Panel discussion
Workshop
Seminar
Role playing
Brain storming
Buzz session
Research

13. COMPONENTS :
 Orientation
 Skill training
 Leadership and management development
 Continuing education

14. 1.ORIENTATION :
Orientation means providing new employees with basic
information about the employer.
Orientation period introduces a new employee to the basic
aspect of his/ her job.

15. TYPE OF ORIENTATION :
 Centralized Orientation
 Decentralized Orientation

16. CENTRALIZED ORIENTATION
It focus on three areas.



 General Orientation:
Physical set up of organization
Policies , Schedule
Purpose and roles of employees

17. CONT…
 Hospital Orientation :
• Organization set up, philosophy and practice
of hospital
• Services available for staff and patients in the
hospital.
• Resources available
• Library facilities

18. CONT..
 Orientation to the Nursing department
 Organization of nursing department.
 Different categories of nursing personnel.
 Special programmes and activities for nursing
personnel

19. DECENTRALIZED ORIENTATION :
 It focus on the
 Orientation to nursing unit :
Ward routine, duties, taking and handling over charges,
clinical activity like providing patient care , admission and
discharge procedure etc.
 Orientation to the nursing team :
 Duties , functions and responsibilities of each team
members etc.

20. 2. SKILL TRAINING
 It provides employees with skills and attitudes required
for the job and keeps them abreast of changing methods
and new techniques
 A skill is a great ability or proficiency. The skill training
provides how and why to assigned functions.
 The skilll training may range from simple to complex or
general to specific.

21. CONT…
Types of training:
 Basic skill training
 Technical training
 Interpersonal skills training
 Problem solving training
 Diversity training.

22. CONT..
 Training methods:
 Job rotation:
By assigning people to different jobs or tasks to
different people on a temporary basis.
 Mentoring Programmes:
A new employee frequently learns his or her job
under guidance of an experienced workers.

23. 3.LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT
 It equips a selected group of employees to shoulder
growing responsibilities and new positions.
 Staffs should have skills in leadership and
management in order to guide employees.
 They mainly focus to develop
 Leadership skills
 Communication skills
 Performance Management skills
 Decision making skills

24. Page 1

25. Continuing education is a means of staff
development which assist the employee to
improve performance .
Some of nursing prog such as Diploma in
cardiac care unit,Post basic B.Sc nursing,M.Sc
nursing ,NPM, CCCH, Speciality courses etc.

26. DEFINITIONS
Continuing education
programme - It is any
extension of
opportunities for reading,
study and training to any
person and adult
following their
completion of or
withdrawal from full time
school and / or college
programmes.
Continuing education in
nursing - It is a planned
activity directed towards
meeting the learning
needs of the nurse
following basic nursing
education, exclusive of
full time formal post
basic education.

27. DEFINITIONS
1.It is an educational activity, primarily designed to
keep the registered nurses abrest of their particular
field of interest and do not lead to any formal
advanced standing in the profession.
-Nursing Thesarus of the International Index
2. Continuing education is all the learning activities that
occurs after an individual has completed his basic
education.
- Cooper

28. OBJECTIVES
• Keep up to date with new concepts
and development in the health
field.
• To increase their basis knowledge
and skills and develop positive
attitudes.
• Develop an ability to analyze
problems and to work with others.

29. • Meet the challenge of changes
in technology
• Maintain standards of health
care at acceptable level
• Help in setting standards of
performance

30. • Motivate staff for better patient
care
• Meet new needs of the
community
• To assist the nursing educator in
increasing the teaching
effectiveness.
• To develop leadership potential
in nurses

31. •it should be based on real and specific
problems of staff and patient.
•Involves all personnel in training.
•The CNE educators has developed insight
and thinking abilities in all participants.
CHARACTERISTICS OF GOOD
CNE

32. •learning principles are utilized
•Participation and cooperation with
community
•Relevance in planning
•Continuous evaluation of activities
•Effective evaluation criteria

33. NEED OF CNE
To ensure safe & effective nursing care
To meet the needs of population& should cater
to the needs of service
Development of nurses by updating their
knowledge
For career advancement

34. To acquire specialized skills
It provides opportunity for professional
growth
Development of nurses will occur by
updating their knowledge and preparing
them for specialization for career
advancement.

35. Nurses with research aptitude and
preparation are needed.
Nurse in administrative position need
to increase their understanding of
administrative process.
The demand for specialized nursing
services is increasing more rapidly.
Planned programmes
increase their competence
are needed to
as
practitioners.

36. PLANNING FOR CNE
1 2
Planning
formula
Steps in
planning

37. THE PLANNING
FORMULA
HOW
WHY
WHAT
PLANNING FORMULA
WHEN

38. Steps of CNE :
Establishing Goals :
Goals of the continuing education must be
established in co ordination with philosophy ,
policies and mission of the organization.
Formulating specific objectives :
specific objectives should be formulated based on
the established goals.
Determine the course of action :
The course of action must be determined to meet
the specific needs of continuing education.

39. Cont…..
Assessment of resources :
Resources are the key elements of any program to be
implemented without which it may not be possible.
proper assessment of resources should be done in terms of
finances , personnel and material etc.
Establish a budget :
The nurse administrator should have adequate planning
for establishing workable budget for implement the
continuning education for nurses.

40. Cont….
Evaluation :
Result of continuing education must be evaluated at
frequent interval to monitor the changes supposes to
take place in practice.
Reassessment and revision in goals & objectives :
A Reassessment should be carried out to see whether
the planned goals have been achieved or not if not
than making required changes.

41. Problems
of
CNE

42. 1.Lack of incentives , motivation and
interest
2.Inapproriate methodology
3.Inadequate evaluation technique
4.Inappropriate curriculum and courses
5. Inadequate Training of teacher educators
6.Administration problems
7.Organisational problems
8.lack of specific objectives
9.Lack of follow up programmes

43.  Applies adult learning principles when
helping nurses learn new skills or
techniques that empower
information
 Uses teaching
nursing staff
 Sensitive to the learning deficits of the
nursing staff and creatively minimize these
difficulties
 Prepare the nurses readily regarding
knowledge and skill deficits.
 Actively seeks out teaching opportunities for
nurses
 Frequently assess learning needs of the
nurses