SISTER NIVEDITA GOVERNMENT NURSING

COLLEGE, IGMC SHIMLA

COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING

IN-SERVICE EDUCATION PROGRAMME

ON
COVID-19
FOR ASHA AND ANGANWADI WORKERS

SUBMITTED TO SUBMITTED BY

Dr. Pushpa Panwar Roll No. 03

Lecturer Cum HOD Shivani. (Community
nd
health nursing ) M.sc. Nursing 2 Year
SNGNC IGMC Shimla SNGNC,IGMC,Shimla
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.

DEFINITION

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 Nurses Association

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

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.

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.
′In-service education mainly focus on efficiency and quality of services

PURPOSE

● Helps to improve professional 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

SCOPE

● Maintenance of familiarity with new knowledge and subject matter.

● Increased skill in providing service′
● Improved attitudes and skills′
 ● Greater skill in utilizing community resources and in working with adults.′
● Development and refinement of common values and goals.

NEEDS FOR INSERVICE EDUCATION:

● ′Needs for development of manual, behavioral 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.

FACTORS AFFECTING IN SERVICE EDUCATION

1. Cost of health care: through in service education programmes may increase the efficiency
of nursing services; they add additional expenditure to the health care delivery system.
2. Manpower: it require qualified human resources which means an increase I the human
resources component.
3. Changes in nursing practice: there are frequent changes in the programme of in service
education.
4. Standard: it is essential to maintain the high quality of nursing practice.
5. Organization of nursing development: it is important that develop practicing approaches
are organized well.

COMPONENTS

1) Orientation
2) Skill training
3) Leadership and management development
4) Continuing education
1. ORIENTATION: Orientation means providing new employees with basic information
about the employer.
2. SKILL TRAINING: It provides employees with skills and attitudes required for the job
and keeps them abreast of changing methods and new techniques
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
4. CONTINUING EDUCATION: Continuing education is all the learning activities that
occur offer an individual has completed his basic education.

PLANNING FOR IN SERVICE EDUCATION:

Planning is essential if the learning need of nurses are to be met and available resources are to be
used to good advantages. Effective planning is required at all level.

STEPS IN PLANNING PROCESS:

1. Establishing goals with purpose: Purpose gives direction in planning. It identifies reason
for existence. Purpose are based on the learning needs and social needs; so it has to be
reviewed from time to time and restated as appropriate.
2. Establishing goals and objectives: Planning moves towards goals which are significant and
realistic, which can be attained and objectives should be attainable. An objective is specific
● Objectives
- To assist the nurse in identifying and meeting current learning needs generated by
changing professional practice.
- To promote the development of leadership potential of nurse.
- To identify nursing problems and in seeking solution to them.
- To disseminate new information from varied channel.
- To develop varied teaching methods for extending nursing knowledge and competencies.
- To assess the health needs of nurses, hospitals and community to plan, implement and
evaluate educational programme in hospital and health facilities.
3. Determining needs and priorities: Assessment of needs will be done by survey, through
mailed questionnaire, interview, formal and informal discussion with participants and
checklist. After assessing the needs prioritization of the needs has to be done.
4. Assessing the available resources for establishing the program: Careful assessment of
ways and means to meet the established program goal. Faculty, finances and facilities may be
seen as the major resources required for a continuing education program. A broad survey of
the major resources are necessary to the total continuing nursing education.
5. Plan the budget appropriate for the program: Separate budget is required for each
activity. Sometimes budget for in-service training or continuing education program will be
sanction by the Government, university grants or fee collected from participants.
6. Reassessing the goals:
- Uses teaching techniques that empower staff.
- Applies frequently assess the learning needs of the staff.

PRINCIPLES OF IN-SERVICE EDUCATION

● Have the organizational structure as simple as possible.

 ● Don’t do many things at a time.
● Avoid being involved in complex and long term project.
● Start with those problems that disturb the person most.
● Be flexible.
● Move step by step, from simple to complex situation.
● Start in-service education in simple and easy way so that they can remember the fact as they
change.
● There should be compliance with stated educational standards.
● In service education is the one of the category of adult education.
● It helps in meeting the academic needs.
● It is an essential means of providing education.

PROBLEMS RELATED TO IN-SERVICE EDUCATION PROGRAMME

● Lack of incentive, motivation and interest.

● Inappropriate methodology.
● In adequate educational technique.
● Inappropriate curriculum and courses.
● Inadequate training of teachers and educators.
● Organizational problems
● Functional problems.
● Lack of specific objectives.
● Lack of follow up programmes.

ADVANTAGES OF IN-SERVICE EDUCATION PROGRAMME

● Upgrade the professional knowledge

● Improve leadership quality.
● Impacts current knowledge regarding equipments and procedures and new trends in
nursing.

DISADVANTAGES

● It is time consuming.
● Proper planning is necessary.
● It disturbs the normal ward routine.
● It can be expensive.
● It is not easy to organize.

ONE DAY IN-SERVICE EDUCATION PROGRAMME ON COVID-19

Date of the session: 29-07-2021 Timing: 10AM to 4:30 PM

Location: Upper chakkar, Anganwadi

Venue: Upper chakkar, Anganwadi

Timing of registration: 10am to 10:15am

DATE TIME TOPICS

29-07-2021 10 am to 10:15am Registration of the participants.

29-07-2021 10:15am to 10:30am Welcoming to the participants / Introduction of panel

members

29-07-2021 10:30am to 10:45 am Quiz on COVID-19 (Pre-evaluation of the group)

29-07-2021 10:45am to 11:30am Introduction to COVID 19

29-07-2021 11:30AM to Tea break

11:45am

29-07-2021 11:45am to12:45pm Sign and symptoms of COVID 19

29-07-2021 12:45pm to 01:45pm Mode of transmission of virus and incubation period.

29-07-2021 01:45pm to 02:00pm Lunch break

29-07-2021 02:00pm to 2:15pm Short educational video safety measure for prevention of
the spread of COVID 19

29-07-2021 2:15 to 02:30pm Prevention of spread of COVID 19

29-07-2021 02:30pm to 02:45pm Post evaluation quiz on COVID 19

29-07-2021 02:45pm to 03:00pm Demonstration of hand washing technique and social
distancing.

29-07-2021 3:30pm to 3:45pm Demonstrate how to check the sign and symptoms of
COVID 19 and transfer the patient to hospital.

29-07-2021 3:45pm to 4:00 pm Discussion of the guidelines given by government on

COVID 19

29-07-2021 4:00pm to 4:15 pm Announcement of the quiz and distribution of the prize
and informational booklet on COVID 19

29-07-2021 04:15 to 4:30 pm Tea break and presenting momentum to the participants
and distribution of certificates.