Continuing Education
-: EDUCATIONAL PREPARATION :-
Nursing education consists in the theoretical and practical training provided to nurses with the purpose to prepare them for their duties as nursing care professionals. This education is provided to nursing students by experienced nurses and other medical professionals who have qualified or experienced for educational tasks. Most countries offer nurse education courses than can be relevant to general nursing or to specialized areas including mental health nursing, midwifery nursing , pediatric nursing and post-operative nursing.
➢ Historical Background :- During recent past decades, the moving on education has replaced the more practically focused, but often ritualistic, training structure of conventional preparation. Nursing education integrates today a broader awareness of other disciplines allied to medicine, often involving inter-professional education, and the utilization of research when making clinical and managerial decisions, orthodox (standard) training can be argued to have offered a more intense practical skills base, but emphasized the handmaiden relationship with the physician. This is now outmoded and the impact of nursing education is to develop a confident, inquiring graduate who contributes to the care team as an equal.
The educational preparation of registered nurses has been shown to be associated with patient outcomes in hospitals. Hospitals that employ larger proportions of nurses prepared at the baccalaureate and higher level have lower rates of mortality and failure to rescue.
The empirical evidence shows that educational preparation of nurses makes a difference in patient outcomes. In India there is a different type of nursing educational programme going on. There are six levels of nursing education in India today, they are :
1. Multi Purpose Health Worker Female training (ANM or MPHW-F) 2. Female Health Supervisor training (HV or
Nursing education consists in the theoretical and practical training provided to nurses with the purpose to prepare them for their duties as nursing care professionals. This education is provided to nursing students by experienced nurses and other medical professionals who have qualified or experienced for educational tasks. Most countries offer nurse education courses than can be relevant to general nursing or to specialized areas including mental health nursing, midwifery nursing , pediatric nursing and post-operative nursing.
➢ Historical Background :- During recent past decades, the moving on education has replaced the more practically focused, but often ritualistic, training structure of conventional preparation. Nursing education integrates today a broader awareness of other disciplines allied to medicine, often involving inter-professional education, and the utilization of research when making clinical and managerial decisions, orthodox (standard) training can be argued to have offered a more intense practical skills base, but emphasized the handmaiden relationship with the physician. This is now outmoded and the impact of nursing education is to develop a confident, inquiring graduate who contributes to the care team as an equal.
The educational preparation of registered nurses has been shown to be associated with patient outcomes in hospitals. Hospitals that employ larger proportions of nurses prepared at the baccalaureate and higher level have lower rates of mortality and failure to rescue.
The empirical evidence shows that educational preparation of nurses makes a difference in patient outcomes. In India there is a different type of nursing educational programme going on. There are six levels of nursing education in India today, they are :
1. Multi Purpose Health Worker Female training (ANM or MPHW-F) 2. Female Health Supervisor training (HV or
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