Professional development is learning to earn or maintain professional credentials such as academic degrees to formal coursework, attending conferences, and informal learning opportunities situated in practice. It has been described as intensive and collaborative, ideally incorporating an evaluative stage.

1. PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION/
CONFERENCE
SUBMITTED TO: SUBMITTED BY:
DR. PALLAVI PATHANIA MS. MANISHA
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR M.Sc. (N) 1ST YEAR
SHIMLA NURSING COLLEGE SHIMLA NURSING COLLEGE

2. INDEX
S.no Topic
1 Professional education
a. Introduction
b. Definition
c. Purpose
d. Skill of professional educator
e. Importance
2 Conference
a. Introduction
b. Definition
c. Functions
d. Who can participate in conference
e. Types of conference
f. Facilities at conference hall
g. Format for organising conference
h. Stages of conference
i. Conference rules
j. Advantages of conference

4. INTRODUCATION
Professional education is a accurate, deep, and
current knowledge of the subject matter. . On-
going knowledge is enhanced
through professional development, furthering
education courses, reading current journals
and research, and participating
in professional organizations.

5. DEFINITION
■ Professional education is a formal specialized training about a
particular profession in which learners are taught the central
concepts, principles, and techniques, and how these are applied in
real practice, and the learners also acquire the necessary
competencies needed for proper practice and behavior

6. CONTD…
EXAMPLE
■ architecture school, business school,
engineering school, journalism school, law
school, library school, schools
of education (normal school), public policy
school and social work school.

7. PURPOSE
■ It enable a worker to move from satisfactory to excellent
performance
■ Provide exposure to new concepts , procedural refinement,
innovation product applications, or acquisition of increased
expertise
■ Ensure professional development
■ Increase ability in order to solve the problem in a clinical
administrative area
■ Improve ability to communicate or participate in research
work

8. SKILLS OF PROFESSIONAL EDUCATORS
Be a good communicator
Interpersonal skills
Patience
Being organised
Able to explain things appropriate in
different age is appropriate manner

9. IMPORTANCE OF PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION
■ Explore, reflect and develop one’s own practice
■ Update about one’s academic discipline
■ Research and reflect on learners and their education
■ Understand and update oneself on educational and social issues
■ Break out of intellectual isolation and share experience

10. CONFERENCE

11. INTRODUCATION
■ Meeting of the people that ‘CONFER’ about a topic.
■ Prearranged meeting for exchange of information.
■ A discussion among participants who have an agreed
topic.

12. DEFINITION OF CONFERENCE
■ ‘Conference’ is a gathering of a particular set of individuals
invited to consult with, discuss or present information on a
particular topic for the bettering of relations and information
between the organisation
■ A conference is the act of consulting together of two or
more individuals in formal meeting for the purpose of
giving or exchanging ideas . It involve two-way flow of
conversations.

13. FUNCTIONS OF CONFERENCE
■ Announcement of new knowledge.
■ Exchange of information and experience.
■ Education.
■ Formulation of problems and situations.
■ Fact- finding and reporting

14. ■ Businessman
■ IT Professional
■ Journalists
■ Educators
■ Students
WHO CAN PARTICIPATE IN A
CONFERENCE

15. TYPES OF CONFERENCES
Academic conference
Business conference
Athletic conference

16. CONTD…
Conference call
News conference
Nursing care conference

17. CONTD…
Individual conference
Nursing team conference

18. 1.ACADEMIC CONFERENCE
-Conference for researchers and people of
academic background.
-To present and discuss their work and results
-Use scientific and academic journals
-Provides channels for exchange of information
between researchers.

19. CATEGIES OF
ACADEMIC
CONFERENCE

20. Small
conference
organised
around a
particular topic
THEMED
CONFERENCE
• A conference with wider focus
• Often organise by regional,
national or international learned
society
• Held annually or on some other
regular basis
GENERAL
CONFERENCE
• Large conference
• No limited to
academics
• Related to
academically
related issues
PROFESSIONAL
CONFERENCE

21. 2. BUSINESS CONFERENCE
-Organized to discuss about business related
matters
-Event organised to discuss a pressing issues.
-Event organised by an association ,
individual, or private company.
-Organized for networking , education or to
discuss business topic

22. 3.ATHLETIC CONFERENCE
-Collection of sports team
-Playing competitively against each other
-In many cases conferences are divided
into smaller divisions
-Best teams can compete at higher levels
-Not always include teams from same
geographic region

23. 4. CONFERENCE CALL
Conference call is a telephone in
which someone talks to several people
at the same time.
The conference call may be designed to
allow the called party to participate
during the call or set up so that the
called party merely listens into the call
and cannot speak. It is sometimes
called ATC (audio teleconference).

24. 5. NEWS CONFERENCE
-It is a media conference.
-Also know as press conference.
-Newsmakers invite journalists to hear
them and asks questions.
-Conference with no question and no
statements is called photo opportunity

25. 6.NURSING CARE CONFERENCE
-A nursing care conference is a course of
action discussion
-The focus is on assessing the nursing
problem arriving at possible solution,
helping staff to examine a patient’s problem
from his/her point of view.
-It provide a good learning experience for
all the staff who shares a common nursing
problem in providing care to specific patient

26. 7.INDIVIDUAL CONFERENCE
-Sometimes it is described as a
‘conversation with a purpose’ or more
simply, as a interview.
-The teacher may introduce the student to
new fields of knowledge , impact
information to his/ her regarding this field
and strive to motivate his/her in
acquisition

27. 8.NURSING TEAM CONFERENCE
-Nursing team conference as a teaching
tool offers valuable opportunities for
learning.
-Concomitant values gained by this type of
experience are related to the ability to
share knowledge of the patient’s need to
work cooperatively with other members of
the nursing team and total health team

28. ADVANTAGES OF THE NURSING TEAM
CONFERENCE
• It is used to plan for daily continuity of nursing care that best
meets the patient’s need
• As a teaching tool, nursing team conference , offers valuable
opportunities for learning
• It gives an ability to observe report and analyse significant
finding input to its greatest test as students are confronted with
their daily responsibility

29. FACILITES AT CONFERENCE HALL
■ Furniture
■ Overhead projectors
■ Stage lighting
■ Sound system

30. STEPS FOR ORGANIZING CONFERENCE
Step 1: Decide on a theme
Step 2: Assemble your A-team
Step 3: Prepare a budget & business plan
Step 4: Find sponsors & grants [optional]
Step 5: Settle on a date
Step 6: Book the venue
Step 7: Arrange catering & other vendors [optional]

31. Step 8: Line up your speakers
Step 9: Put together an agenda
Step 10: Start registering attendees
Step 11: Promote your conference
Step 12:Take care of on-site planning
Step 13: Host the conference
Step 14: Follow up after the conference

32. STAGES F CONFERENCE
-It starts with registration
of participants
-The large groups are split
into small groups to
discuss the different aspect
of problems in the
different table
-The convener of each
group is appointed by
president to supervise the
group
INAUGURAL FUNCTION
•-In this stage convener
prepare the schedules and
conduct the group
discussion
•-He/she also organise the
ideas as presented by the
members
PAPER READING GROUP
DISCUSSION
-In this phage chief guest are
invited
-The convener of the group
present their reports on the
sub –tasks assigned to them
-The members of the group
are asked on the reports
-At the end tasks thanks is
given to all participants for
making conference
VALIDICTORY FUNCTION

33. CONFERENCE RULES
• Observe time limit
• Rehearse the talk
• Stop fidgeting
• Check out the room in advance
• Don’t improvise too much

34. ADVANTAGES OF CONFERENCE
• It promotes the abilities- problem solving , analysis , synthesis and
evaluation
• It the best device to develop democratic values among participants like
cooperation, team spirit, respect of ideas
• It shows interest among the participants in the being discussed
• It enables the students to express their ideas and feeling in a meaningful
manner
• It help in developing good manner of asking question, seeking
clarification, presenting own point of views

35. SUMMMERIZATION

36. CONCLUSION
Conference is a convention, in the sense of a meeting, is a gathering of
individuals who meet at an arranged place and time in order to discuss or
engage in some common interest.
Professional education is a formalized approach to specialized training in
a professional school through which participants acquire content knowledge
and learn to apply techniques. ... It involves the translation of learning to
practice and is intended to prevent occupations and professionals from
becoming obsolete

37. RECAPTULAIZATION
■ What are the importance of professional education
■ Enlist types of conferences
■ What are the function of conference

38. REFERENACES
■ https://billetto.co.uk/l/how-to-organise-a-conference viewed on 18/8/2020
■ https://www.igi-global.com/dictionary/active-learning-deliberate-practice-and-
educational-technology-in-professional-education viewed on 17/8/2020
■ https://www.encyclopedia.com/finance/finance-and-accounting-magazines/professional-
education viewed on 17/8/2020
■ https://www.slideshare.net/rashusweet/conference-6708508 viewed on 17/8/2020