Continuing Nursing Education(CNE) is the process directed towards the personal and professional growth of nurses and other personnel while they are employed by a health care agency. It is essential for the upliftment of personal as well as administrative field. CNE helps in updating the knowledge and practice of professional. It is applicable not only to nursing field but also to all the professional fields.

1. CNE

2. OBJECTIVES
At the end of this session, you will get clear understanding about;
• What is meant by continuing nursing education
• Define - continuing nursing education
• List down the features of continuing nursing education
• Enumerate the needs of continuing nursing education
• Enlist the functions of continuing nursing education
• List down the principles of continuing nursing education
• Explain in detail about the types of continuing nursing education

4. INTRODUCTION
Continuing Nursing Education is the process
directed towards the personal and professional
growth of nurses and other personnel while they
are employed by a health care agency. It is
essential for the upliftment of personnal as well
as administrative field. Continuing education
helps in updating the knowledge and practice of
professionals. It is applicable not only to nursing
field but also to all the professional fields.

5. DEFINITION
According to Cooper, Continuing Education is defined as, “All the learning
activities that occurs after an individual has completed his basic
education”
According to ANA, Continuing Nursing Education is defined as, “planned
educational activities intended to build upon the educational and
experimental basis of the professional nurse for the enhancement of
practice, education, administration and research or theory development to
the end of improving the health of the public”.

6. FEATURES OF CNE
Unified Approach
Relationship with other
systems
Comprehensiveness
Accessibility for women
health workers
Integration with the
management process
Internally coordinated
Analysis of needs as a
basis for learning
Credibility and economic

7. NEEDS OF CNE
• Development of nurses will occur by updating their knowledge and skills to
prepare them for specialization.
• To develop competent nurse practitioners.
• To acquire specialized skills and to meet technologic adjuncts.
• Nurses with research aptitudes and preparation are needed.
• Professional roles are changed as society altered and new knowledge emerge.
• To provide a variety of continuing nursing education opportunities of high
quality to nurses in both education and service

8. FUNCTIONS OF CNE

9. PRINCIPLES OF CNE
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• Provision for
school
• Nursing faculty
involvement in
planning
• Teaching the
CNE courses
Adequate staff
is essential for
planning,
implementing
and evaluating
a program
• Determination
of learning
needs
• Development
and
implementation
of program
• Evaluation of
results
Continuing
nursing
education
program may
be centralized
or
decentralized.
• Faculty maybe
assigned to
continuing
education as a
regular part of
the normal
teaching.
• Non-university
faculty maybe
hired on
contract basis
to teach
specific
courses
Financial
support is by
either
university
grants or self
supporting.

10. TYPES OF CNE
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Self directed
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11. FORMAL LEARNING
• Formal learning is a learning delivered in a
systematic intentional way.
• It’s planned and guided by an instructor and it
usually occurs in a face-to-face setting or an
online learning platform.
• Some of the formal learning are; undergraduate
or postgraduate education leading to the award
of a certificate, diploma, advanced diploma,
degree, post graduate certificate, post graduate
diploma, masters or PhD.

12. INFORMAL LEARNING
• Informal learning is unstructured, often
unintended and it occurs outside a
conventional setting/ traditional learning
settings like universities, schools or
colleges.
• This learning takes place through
attending short courses, seminars,
workshops and in-service training.
• It maybe face-to-face, distance or online.

13. EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING
• “Learning by doing” or “hands on” is the basis for
experiential learning.
• This learning focuses on the idea that the best
ways to learn things is by actually having
experiences.
• These experiences stick out in your mind and help
you retain information and remember facts.
• Some of the experiential learning are reflecting on
experiences, considering feedback from service
users, being a member of a committee, etc.

14. SELF DIRECTED LEARNING
• Self- directed learning is an active learning approach
in which the students are responsible for their own
learning outcome, with teacher acting as a
facilitator of learning.
• Self‐directed learning is essential in assisting
nurses to meet the challenges presented in today's
health care environment.
• Nurse educators have an important role to play in
assisting nurses to acquire the skills for
self‐directed learning.

15. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
• Nurses provide care for the sick and they are
the first providers of health care, wellness and
self care.
• There are many opportunities to shape the
future of nursing profession and nursing
practice since the nurses improve the quality of
lives of the clients community and society.
• Some of the professional activities are;
participating actively in professional
association, preceptorship or mentoring, giving
a presentation at a professional conference,
serving on a professional committee or task
force.

16. E-LEARNING
http://elearning.indiannursingcouncil.org/
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VIRTUAL WEBINAR
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17. CNE – CREDIT HOURS
http://elearning.onlinetnnmc.org/
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18. SUMMARY

19. REFERENCES
Books:
• D. Elakkuvana Bhaskara Raj (2018), Textbook of Nursing Education, P.311-314
• R. Sudha (2013), Nursing Education Principles and Concepts P. 212 -216
Journals:
• Advances in physiology education, Vol.44, No.3, Jul 2020.
• Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal, Vol 5, No.1, Jan 2018.
• JAN Leading Global Nursing Research, Vol. 43, Issue 1, Jul 2003, P. 62-70.