This document discusses continuing nursing education. It defines continuing education as learning that occurs after basic education is completed and builds on previous knowledge. Continuing education is needed to keep nurses up to date on new concepts and developments, increase knowledge and skills, develop positive attitudes, and meet challenges from changes in technology. It discusses the types, functions, principles, elements, and process of continuing nursing education programs. The goals are to meet health needs, develop practicing abilities, recognize knowledge gaps, and ensure quality education for nurses.

1. PRESENTATION
ON
CONTINUING NURSING
EDUCATION

2. INTRODUCTION
Staff development is the process
directed towards the personal and
professional growth of nurses and other
personnel while they are in a health care
agency. Staff development programs
includes
1.inservice education
2.continuing education
3.adult learning

3. CONTINUING EDUCATION
• “Continuing education is all the learning
activities that occurs after an individual
has completed his basic education”
-cooper
• “That education which builds on previous
knowledge”
-Shannon

4. NEEDS
• Keep up to date with new concepts and
developments in health fields
• To increase their basis knowledge ,skills
and develop positive attitude’
• Develop an ability to analyse problems
and to work with others
• Meet challenges of changes in technology
• Maintain standards of health care at
acceptable levels

5. CONT..
• Help in setting standards of performance
• Help in career development
• Motivate staff for better patient care
• Meet new needs of the community
• Help in career development

6. TYPES
• Mandatory continuing education
• Voluntary continuing education
• Formal education
• Informal education

7. FUNCTIONS
• To meet the health needs and public
expectation.
• To develop the practicing abilities of the
nurses.
• Recruitment function.
• Recognizes gaps in their knowledge.
• To improve the communication between
the participants, faculty, community and
health sector.

8. CONT
• To test the participants ability to do
formal academic study.
• To ensure the quality of education.
• To grant budget for orientation studies.
• To maintain academic standards.
• To meet educational requirements

9. 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
program.
• A moderate 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.
• Responsibility of the educator of continuing education are:
• Determination of learning of the nurse population.
• Development and implementation of a program to meet the
needs.

10. CONT..
• Evaluation of results.
• Staff services are resumed with sufficient talents and
numbers to implement the planned program.
• An advisory committee has to be appointed which includes,
faculty members from a variety of areas of nursing practice,
director of the hospital, representatives from health
department or voluntary agencies.
• Continuing nursing education program may be decentralized
or centralized.
• Financial support I by either university grants or self
supporting.

11. ELEMENTS
CONTINUING
NURSING
EDUCATION
LEARNER
TEACHER/
EDUCATOR

12. PROCESS
• Establishing goals with purpose
• Establishing goals and purposes
• Determining needs and practices
• Assess the available resources for establishing the program
• Plan the budget appropriate for the program
• Conducting CNE
• Evaluation of CNE

13. NURSES ROLE
NURSES ROLE