CONTINUING EDUCATION

INTRODUCTION
Continuing education is the process of learning that
does not stop at any particular stage is known as
continuing education. It include all learning
opportunities which would be taken up after full
time education has stopped.
 DEFINITION OF CONTINUING EDUCATION

“ According to medical dictionary”

continuing education is any extension of opportunities
for reading , study and training to young persons and
adults following their completion of or withdrawal
from full time school and college.
OR
“ According to Cooper”
continuing education is all the learning
activities
that occur after an individual has completed his basic
education.
 AIMS OF CONTUNING EDUCATION

1. Improvement of professional practice.

2. To motivate the staff to seek the latest knowledge.
3. To keep the nurses with the nurses latest
development of technologies.
4. Evaluate the effectiveness of the approved units
activities.
5. The association can contribute to the provision of
quality of nursing care by facilitating professional
growth.
 NEED OF CONTINUING EDUCATION

 To ensure safe and effective nursing care.

 Changing health care delivery system.
 For career development.
 Development of nurses by updating their knowledge.
 Professionals are altered as society changes and as
technologies emerge.
 To acquire specialised skill for professionals
 TYPES OF CONTINUING EDUCATION

There are following types of continuing education:-

1. Professionals journals
2. Seminars
3. Workshops
4. Online courses
5. HIV/AIDS training
6. Domestic violence training
IMPORTANC OF CONTINUING EDUCATION IN
NURSING

Nurses enter the field armed with the knowledge,

they need to excel at their jobs . Continuing
education prepares nurses for these changes .
Continuing education is also necessary for nurses ,
who want to work as an advanced or specialized
nurse.
IMPORTANC OF CONTINUING EDUCATION IN
NURSING

Consequences of
not continuing
education

State nursing Changing

technology
requirement

Special Career
situations advancement
Planning is the key stone for the administrative process
without adequate planning , continuing education
offerings are fragmented haphazardly constructed
and often unrelated . A successful continuing
education program is the result of careful and
detailed planning.
 Learner
 Teacher/educator
 PRINCIPLES OF CONTINUING EDUCATION

1. Treating basic literacy , post literacy and as one

sustained coherent learning process.
2. Establish a responsive and alternative structure for
life long learning.
3. Responding to the needs of all sections of society.
4. Learning not to be seen as a function of alphabets ,
but as all modes of human capacity building.
5. Addressing the socioeconomic situations of the
community to provide infrastructure for larger
development initiatives.
 PHILOSOPHY OF CONTINUING
EDUCATION
1. Nurses philosophy of life ,nurse and education belief
etc. Will influence the philosophy of continuing
nursing education.
2 . It focuses on individual learner.
3. The thoughtful teacher recognizes that ones
philosophy of education is always an emerging one ,
rather than a static one.
4 . Learning must be a continuous process through out
the lifespan, not limited to formal courses of study.
5. Nursing is based on knowledge of the physical and
psychological functioning of man within his
environment, expanding the knowledge related to
man and his dynamic proliferating field of operation
is concern.
 • Knowledge and skills
IMPROVED • Attitudinal change

• Better performance
INSTITUTION • Quality patient care

• Increased job satisfaction

PERSONAL • High motivation
 FUNCTION OF CONTINUING
EDUCATION
1. To meet the health needs and public
expectations.
2. To develop the practicing abilities of the
nurse.
3. To recognizes gaps in knowledge.
4. To test the abilities of participants to do
perform academic study.
5. To ensure the quality of education.
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6. To maintain academic standards.
7. To meet the individual requirements.
8. To shape or support university educational policies
and practices.
 NATIONAL POLICY ON CONTINUING
EDUCATION
 The National policy on education is a policy
formulated by the government of India to promote
education amongst India’s people.
 The policy covers elementary education to colleges in
both rural and urban India.
 The first national policy was promulgated in 1968 by
the government of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi ,
and second by Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1986
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 According to the national policy on education
(NPE) , adult education can be successful
implemented through a process of continuing
education .It is possible to combine and implement
the adult education and continuing education
programmes through various ways, such as setting
up continuing education centres in rural areas.
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1. Education through educating workers and
through their employers trade unions and
concerned agencies of government .
2. Providing post secondary education institutions.
3. Providing radio, televisions(TV) and films as mass
media and group learning activities.
4. Providing books, libraries and reading rooms.
5. Creating learners groups and organizations.
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6. Designing programmes of distance learning.

7.Organizing assistance in self study.

8.Organizing vocational training programmes based on

needs and interests of learners.
 PROGRAMMES OF ACTION ON
NATIONAL POLICY ON EDUCATION
 A nursing programme of action implemented by the
ministry of human resources development.
Government of India , has been completely
formulated. It is considerable that continuing
education in nursing is an important part of the
strategy of human resource development with the
aim of creation of learning in nursing society.
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 The continuing education in nursing has the

objective to provide education and the application of
this learning to improve their present living
conditions . However, continuing education goes
beyond post literacy nursing education.
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 Nursing book promotion ill be implemented
according to policies that have framed by the action
of NPE. This policy encourages voluntary efforts for
the establishment of nursing libraries and reading
room, TV , radio and films should be used foe serving
the objectives of spreading of the nursing education
and recreation