EDUCATIONAL PREPARATION

PRESENTED BY
JONES MARINA N.V
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
MEENAKSHI COLLEGE OF NURSING
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

Aims

At the end of the seminar on

educational preparation ,continuing
education, career opportunities for
nurses group will understand and
apply this knowledge in clinical as well
as in educational settings
Objectives
 On completion of seminar, students will be able to
Understand meaning, need of educational
preparation.
 Enumerate various patterns of nursing education.

 Define continuing education.

 Philosophy of continuing nursing education.

 Enumerate the features, needs and functions of

continuing education.
 Understand the current educational
preparations in
nursing.
Current opportunities for nurses in India.

and in abroad.
INTRODUCTION

 Educational preparation for nurses means

preparing the nurses at university level and
school of nursing, at hospital level and at
community level.


Nursing is interpreted in different ways
by different peoples. it is still thought by
many people that nursing is only taking
care of sick people. no medical service is
complete without nursing or without
trained nurses.
NEED FOR EDUCATIONAL
PREPARATION
NEED FOR EDUCATIONAL PREPARATION

 Nursing comprises of several

responsibilities
like dealing with
patients of medical
illness post surgeries,
psychiatric or pediatric
patients

 Nursing also involve in other duties

like maintaining patients
dispensing medication
operating room
management many other
jobs.
BASIC CRITERIA FOR SELECTION IN
NURSING

Candidates, who wish to apply for

nursing courses should pass physics
and chemistry and biology as main
subjects.
CURRENT EDUCATIONAL PATTERNS

EDUCATIONA
L PATTERNS

NON UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY PROGRAMMES
NON UNIVERSITY PROGRAMMES

Basic - ANM-GNM

Trained dais(birth attendant)

 Lady health visitor course
 Post-basic/post certificate short-
term courses and diploma
programmes
[Link] DAIS (BIRTH ATTENDANT)


The Dai training became full fledged
during post independence period.

 No age limit

 Duration of training was 30 days.


This training was done at sub centre and
the equipments provided by UNICEF.
ARTICLE ON DAIS

 Way to healthy delivery

 Dais have been an important part of the process

of childbirth. However, the trend of institutional
deliveries has sidelined them. These traditional
midwives can be trained for a role in the
national rural health scheme to lower the rate of
maternal mortality, writes Usha Rai
DAI SANGATHAN

 InGujarat the Dai Association was

established in 2005 by the dais and
civil society organizations to increase
their visibility, capabilities and to
advocate for a more significant role in
the public health programme.
 2. AUXILIARY NURSE MIDWIFE

 In 1950 Indian Nursing Council made

teaching methods standard for nurses .

 The first course was started at St.

Mary’s Hospital Punjab, 1951. duration was 2
year

 In1997 - curriculum was revised to have

1.5 year of vocationalized ANM program

 Qualification – raised from 7th to matriculation

 3. LADY HEALTH VISITOR COURSE


Training of LHV course post
continued independence.

 The syllabus was prepared and developed

by INC in 1951.

 The entrance qualification was matriculation.

 The duration was two and a half years which was

subsequently reduced to 2 years.
 Health visitors are mainly concerned
with helping to ensure that people's
domestic behaviour is sanitary
and, hygienic and beneficial to the
welfare of themselves and their
families, particularly to their children.
4. GENERAL NURSING AND MIDWIFERY COURSE

 In 1951,syllabus was prescribed by INC.

 In 1954 public health was integrated into

basic nursing course.

 First revision of course was done in 1963.

 The duration of the course was 3 years.

 Three year integrated program of GNM

was prescribed in 1982.
5. POST-BASIC/POST CERTIFICATE SHORT-TERM
COURSES AND DIPLOMA PROGRAM

 Psychiatric nursing
 Cardiothoracic nursing
 Critical care nursing
 Neonatal nursing
 Neuroscience nursing
 2. UNIVERSITY-LEVEL PROGRAMMES

 Basic- [Link] (Nursing)

 Post-Basic [Link] (Regular)

 [Link]. (Nursing)

 [Link] (Nursing)

 Ph.D.
 [Link] [Link]. NURSING

 First university program started just before

independence


INC prescribed the syllabus which has
been revised three times,

 At present the BSc Nursing program which

is recommended by the INC is of four years

 Basic qualification of the course is higher

secondary education
 2. POST BASIC BSC NURSING

 Twoyears post basic certificate [Link].(N)

program was started in December 1962.

 Basicqualification is nurses with diploma

in general and midwifery

 First
started by university of Trivandrum.
 Duration of course is 2 years.
 3. POST BASIC NURSING BY DISTANCE
EDUCATION MODE.


In 1985 Indira Gandhi National open
university was established this pattern.


In 1992 Post Basic BSc Nursing program
was established.

3 years duration course, recognized by INC

[Link]-GRADUATE EDUCATION

MSC NURSING

 First course of masters of nursing was started at

RAK College of Nursing in 1959 and in 1969 in
CMC Vellore.

 The basic qualification is [Link]. nursing.

 Duration of course is 2 year.

 5. [Link]

 In 1986 one year full time and

 twoyears program
 Basic qualification – Master in nursing

 In 1986 started in RAK College of nursing Delhi.

 PHD
 From 1992 Ph D in nursing is available
in India.
Ph.D. in Nursing is a 4-year full-time

course.
 Eligibility for the course is MSc or
[Link].
“Let us never consider ourselves as
finished
nurses….. We must be learning all our
lives”
-Florence
Nightingale
CONTINUING
NURSING EDUCATION
INTRODUCTION

Continuing
education

opportunities for
reading, study, educational
and training to activity primarily
any person and designed to keep
adult following the registered
their completion nurses abreast in
of full time their particular
school or college field of interest .
programme.
DEFINITION
‘’Continuing education is all the
learning activities that occurs after an
individual has completed his basic
education’’

Cooper

 “That education which builds on previous

education’’

Shannon
NEED FOR CONTINUING EDUCATION

 Phenomena of change

 Altered professional role

 Effective
and wise leadership and
competent practitioners

 Tofulfill needs of nurse

practitioner
PHILOSOPHY
 Encompasses
various aspects of
life not limited to
professional
education

Educ
Nursing

ation It is concerned
It focuses on with the
individual learners Life
development of
philosophy for nurse as person
his basic belief practitioner as
citizen
PLANNING FOR CONTINUING
EDUCATION

 Planning is the key stone for the

administrative process.

 Withoutadequate planning,
continuing education offerings are
fragmented.
 Planning Process

Steps of

Planning planning
formula
PLANNING FORMULA
What is
to be
Why is it
done?
necessary?

Planning
How is
it to
formula
be
done?
Who should
do the job?

Where is it to
be done?
STEPS OF PLANNING

 Establishing
goals compatible with the
Purpose or mission of the organization.

Deciding upon specific objectives

consistent with these goals.

Determining the course of action

required to meet the specific objectives.
Assessing the available resources for
establishing the programme.

 Establishing a workable budget,

Evaluating the results at stated

intervals.
 Reassessing he goals and updating
the
 plan periodically.
 • BARRIERS

 Time constraints.
 Financial constraints.

Personal or organizational

resistance.
 Inflexible organizational

policies.
 Staffing issues.

 Family commitments.
 STUDY ON CONTINUING EDUCATION
 Challenges in nursing continuing education: A
qualitative study

 By- Jalil Eslamian,1 Mahin Moeini,1 and Marzie

Soleimani

 Thiswas an explorative descriptive study

conducted on nursing continuing education
challenges among nurses of three hospitals
Kashani, Alzahra, and Noor va Hazrate and the
education authorities of Isfahan University of
Medical Sciences, Iran
 Sampling was purposive, and the
participants comprised the nurses who had
to undergo continuing education.
 Result –

This study showed that the present

approach of nurses’ continuing education
needs modification so as to meet nurses’
needs
management and planning of education
should be based on a new approach
concentrating on nurses’ needs
 In relation evaluation of continuing education from
the viewpoint of nursing personnel, showed that
28.2% of the nurses were dissatisfied with the
time table of educational programme.

 (66.7%) also mentioned lecture method and group

discussion as the most appropriate methods of
education.
 52.3% mentioned the relevancy between the
content of continuing education programs and
their professional needs as average.
 Only 12.7% claimed that educational assistive
equipments are used in education.
.
 About 75.4% believed that new books which
are needed in nursing did not exist in
hospitals’ libraries, and 10.1% stated that
educational CDs are available for personnel.


47.8% of participants believed that the
place of educational classes was highly
appropriate,


47% mentioned that timely use of
educational assistive equipment was highly
appropriate
Career Opportunities
 CAREER OPPORTUNITIES
 For
the nurse opportunities means to
develop his /her own career in nursing.

 The Bureau of labour and statistic

predicts job for RN will grow 19%
by 2022
 CAREER OPPORTUNITIES
1) In India –
Hospital Nursing services

Nursing services in school of nursing

Nursing services in the college of nursing

Nursing services in the college of

nursing

In community health nursing

HOSPITAL NURSING SERVICES

 Staffnurse - GNM/ psychiatric Nursing

diploma
 Senior staff Nurse - G.N.M./[Link]
and experience 5years as staff nurse

 Nursingsuperintendent grade II –
experience as senior staff
nurse

 Nursing superintendent grade I – should

have experience as nursing superintendent
grade II
NURSING SERVICES IN SCHOOL OF NURSING

 a)
Nursing tutor – [Link]. nursing or [Link]
Nursing or diploma in nursing education and
administration

 b)
Clinical instructor - [Link]. nursing or [Link].
Nursing with or without experience

 c)
Principal, school of nursing – [Link].
nursing or [Link]. nursing and should have
teaching experience not less than 5 years
 NURSING SERVICES IN THE COLLEGE OF NURSING

 a)Principal, college of nursing –

[Link]. Nursing or equivalent degree
or PhD in Nursing or the other
doctorate degree and teaching
experience in the college not less
than 5 years

 b) Lecturer –[Link]. nursing

 c) Senior lecturer –experience as
the junior lecturer
NURSING SERVICES IN THE COLLEGE OF NURSING
 a) Principal, college of nursing – [Link]. Nursing
or equivalent degree or PhD in Nursing or the
other doctorate degree and teaching experience
in the college not less than 5 years

 b) Lecturer –[Link]. nursing

 c) Senior lecturer –experience as the junior

lecturer
 d) Assistant lecturer –[Link]. nursing or PhD
nursing with any specialty and should have
experience in the college of nursing not less than
5 years.

 e) Clinical Instructor –[Link]. nursing or [Link].

nursing with or without experience.

 f)Professor – [Link]. nursing or PhD in nursing

with any specialty and teaching experience not
less than 5 years.
4. IN COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING
) Community health nurse /community
nursing officer – [Link] or G.N.M
 Community Health Officers (CHOs)to lead a
primary care provider team consisting of
female health workers (ANMs), male health
worker (MPW), ASHAs, etc.

 b)Health supervisor
The Public Health Supervisor promotes public
health through planning, coordinating,
evaluating, and mentoring professional
public health
5. Nursing services in Industry
specialty nursing practice that
provides for and delivers health and
safety programs and services to
workers, worker populations, and
community groups.
NURSE PRACTITIONER
 The Indian Nursing Council has initiated a
Post Graduate Nurse Practitioner Critical
Care Programme, the first Postgraduate
nursing residency program in India.

The programme is being approved by
Government of India and launched by the
Health Minister and it is announced in
the INC website.
 Duration : 2 years
 Qualification: [Link]. Nursing with 1
year clinical experience
IN ABROAD
1 Canada and USA
The CRNE/CPNRE and NCLEX RN are
some of the Licensure exams that an
Indian nurse has to pass before becoming
RN in Canada or the US. Also, how well a
candidate fares in English language is also
checked.
 2. In Australia,

NMBA (The Nursing and Midwifery Board of
Australia) is a board that takes care of
aspects related to nurses from abroad.
 An Indian nurse is required to complete a
registered nurses program via Initial
Registration for International Nurses. After
completing it, one may easily get registered at
the AHPRA (Australian Health Practitioner
Regulation Agency).
3 UK
The main board that Indian nurses have to
deal with is- NMC (Nursing and Midwifery
Council). ONP (Overseas Nursing Program)
is also conducted to help Indian nurses get
registered in UK
4 Ireland

An Bord Altranais Nursing Board is the main

authority that deals with RN activities in
Ireland. This authority board recommends
some adaptation courses and programs for
Indian nurses to get registered in Ireland.
One has to complete the bridging program
to proceed to registration process
 New Zealand
 NZNC (New Zealand Nursing Council) is the
authority in NZ. It is this board that comes up with
Competency Assessment Programs for nurses from
abroad. One has to pass this program to get
registered as a nurse in New Zealand
 CONCLUSION
 Nursing careers are in more demand than ever
before. Nursing careers are extremely versatile
and very flexible. The advancement and
progression of the nurses is a priority nowadays.
Staffs who display fervour and potential in
taking on a larger role in nursing may be
upgraded through a number of pathways.
Nursing is an important major because nurses
must maintain a good sense of character and
responsibility in a variety of environments while
caring for their patients.
 SUMMARY
We have seen
preparation for nursing education
Criteria for nursing education
Current educational patterns in india and in
abroad Concept of continuing education
Definition of continuing
education Need for continuing
education
Philosophy and planning continuing
education Barriers of continuing education
Career opportunities for nurses
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 PREVIOUS QUESTIONS

 Short note on continuing education programme

(winter 2016)
 ASSIGNMENT
 What is educational preparation, explain continuing
education, need for continuing education in
nursing?
THANK
YOU