CONTINUING EDUCATION OF NURSES IN BULGARIA ORGANIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 1111-1116
Author(s):  
Maria Spasova
Keyword(s):  
Continuing Education ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Financial Incentive ◽  
Continuing Professional Education ◽  
Credit System ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Traditional Course ◽  
Eu Member States

The dynamics of today's world requires every one of us to maintain, upgrade and refine our knowledge and skills lifelong. For the nurses whose profession is regulated in the EU member states, as well in Bulgaria, continuing education is a key element of their professional development. One of the main objectives of the continuing professional education (CPE) is to contribute to the acquisition of new knowledge and skills in a way, appropriate to meet the needs of а present-day medical practice. The institution that organizes, coordinates, provides and registers continuing professional education of the health care professionals is Bulgarian Association of health professionals in nursing (BAHPN). There are different forms of professional educations – courses, congresses, conferences, seminars, ets. For estimation of the various forms of the continuing education in 2006 have been applied United Credit System (UCS), according to which for participation in each provided form credit points were given. The instrument for registration was the National Electronic Professional Register (NEPR).The aim of this study was to analyze retrospectively the trends in the development of continuing education of nurses in Bulgaria for a period from 2006 until the end of 2017. A database from NEPR with 86866 registered participations was used. Inclusion criterion included that health professionals were nurses, with or without registered CPE participations. The study employed retrospective analysis, documentary and statistical methods.The system of continuing professional education of the nurses in our country is an actively developing system that provides equal access and variety of forms of CPE, credited by BAHPN’s United Credit System. The most preferred form of CPE for the nurses was a traditional course. Participation in other forms of continuing education was under the expected levels and occupied a share of only 14.35% in the total structure of continuing education.The registered number of CPE participations for the observed period is a reason to designate nurses as "learning professionals". Despite the existence of some barriers to participation in continuing education, nurses accomplish their professional ethical commitment by actively building their knowledge and skills. The results of the survey revealed the need of measures to motivate nurses to participate more actively in the different forms of continuing education. Motivation could be achieved through interventions to provide support from the employer and colleagues as well as providing opportunities for sponsoring training and regulating a financial incentive to achieve higher competency.

Advancing Practice through Continuing Professional Education: The Case for Reflection

2002 ◽  
Vol 65 (5) ◽  
pp. 237-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne E K Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Continuing Education ◽  
Professional Practice ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Continuing Professional Education ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Short Discussion ◽  
Discussion Paper ◽  
Essential Component ◽  
The Status ◽  
Reflection On Practice

This short discussion paper is inspired by the belief that continuing education is an essential catalyst for advancing professional practice. It proposes that reflection on practice is an essential component of continuing professional education and that experienced practitioners must reflect on practice in order both to develop personally and to move the profession forward. Inevitably, this entails questioning the status quo, facing conflict and initiating change. These processes are discussed here and the discussion concludes by considering some strategies for incorporating reflection through continuing professional education.

scholarly journals Pharmacists’ Utilization of Information Sources Related to Community and Population Needs in the Upper Midwest and Associations with Continuing Professional Education

Pharmacy ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 125
Author(s):  
Paul Henkel ◽  
Marketa Marvanova
Keyword(s):  
Professional Education ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Continuing Professional Education ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
Local Health ◽  
County Level ◽  
Community Changes

Background: To investigate information sources utilized in pharmacists’ assessment of population-based health needs and/or community changes; and the association between information sources utilized and reported completion of continuing professional education topics. Methods: In 2017; licensed pharmacists (n = 1124) in North Dakota; South Dakota; Minnesota; Iowa; and Nebraska completed a questionnaire on continuing professional education and information sources on population-based health needs and community changes. Data were entered; cleaned and imported into Stata 11.1. Census Bureau county-level population density data were used to classify local area characteristics. Descriptive statistics and multivariate logistic regression analyses were performed. Results: Most sources of primary; county-level data on population-based health needs or community changes were minimally utilized. Pharmacists in more rural areas were statistically more likely to use local health professionals; local non-health professionals; and/or the state health department compared to pharmacists in less rural areas. Pharmacists reporting higher use of population-based information sources were more likely to have completed continuing education in the past 12 months for all 21 surveyed topics; 13 significantly so. Conclusions: There is a reliance of pharmacists on information from local health and non-health professionals for information on population-based health needs and/or community changes. Utilization of health departments and other primary information sources was associated with increased rates of completion of an array of continuing professional education topics. Expanding utilization of evidence-driven information sources would improve pharmacists’ ability to better identify and respond to population-based health needs and/or community changes through programs and services offered; and tailor continuing professional education to population-based health needs.

scholarly journals From “Academic Projectitis” to Partnership: Community Perspectives for Authentic Community Engagement in Health Professional Education

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cathy Kline ◽  
Wafa Asadian ◽  
William Godolphin ◽  
Scott Graham ◽  
Cheryl Hewitt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Health Professional ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Common Interest ◽  
Health Professional Education ◽  
Community Based

Health professional education (HPE) has taken a problem-based approach to community service-learning with good intentions to sensitize future health care professionals to community needs and serve the underserved. However, a growing emphasis on social responsibility and accountability has educators rethinking community engagement. Many institutions now seek to improve community participation in educational programs. Likewise, many Canadians are enthusiastic about their health care system and patients, who are “experts by lived experience,” value opportunities to “give back” and improve health care by taking an active role in the education of health professionals. We describe a community-based participatory action research project to develop a mechanism for community engagement in HPE at the University of British Columbia (UBC). In-depth interviews and a community dialogue with leaders from 18 community-based organizations working with vulnerable populations revealed the shared common interest of the community and university in the education of health professionals. Patients and community organizations have a range of expertise that can help to prepare health practitioners to work in partnership with patients, communities, and other professionals. Recommendations are presented to enhance the inclusion of community expertise in HPE by changing the way the community and university engage with each other.

scholarly journals Human Rabies Postexposure Prophylaxis Knowledge and Retention Among Health Professionals by Using an Online Continuing Education Module: Arizona, 2012 to 2015

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-23
Author(s):  
Heather Venkat ◽  
James Matthews ◽  
Jigna Narang ◽  
Rebecca Sunenshine ◽  
Laura E. Adams ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Continuing Education ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Retention Test ◽  
Knowledge Retention ◽  
Human Rabies ◽  
Knowledge Gain ◽  
Median Score ◽  
Postexposure Prophylaxis ◽  
Before And After

Rabies postexposure prophylaxis (PEP) is administered for rabies prevention after a human exposure to a potentially rabid animal, such as a bite. Previous studies have reported that rabies PEP is often inappropriately administered. Health professional education was proposed as one potential solution to address inappropriate PEP use. We assessed baseline knowledge, knowledge gain, and knowledge retention among health professionals in Arizona of rabies epidemiology and appropriate PEP administration. Maricopa County Department of Public Health created an online rabies PEP continuing education module and measured knowledge before and after module completion using a 10-question test. The same test was administered three times (pretest, posttest, and retention test at ≥3 months). To assess knowledge gain and retention, we compared median scores using nonparametric methods. A total of 302 respondents completed the pretest (median score, 60%) and posttest (median score, 90%; p < .001); 98 respondents completed all three tests with median scores 60% (pretest), 90% (posttest, p < .01), and 80% (retention test and compared with pretest, p < .01). Sixty-nine (70%) respondents improved their pretest to retention test score by a mean of 2.4 points out of a total 10 points (median: 2 points; range: −5 to 7 points). Only 48% of pretest respondents correctly answered that PEP should not be administered immediately to anyone bitten by a healthy dog. However, 81% and 70% answered correctly on the posttest ( p < .0001) and retention test ( p = .002), respectively. Respondents demonstrated rabies epidemiology and PEP knowledge gain and ≥3-month knowledge retention after completing the online continuing education module.

scholarly journals Continuing Education for Lay Ministry: Providers, Beliefs, Issues, and Programs

2013 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Leona M. English
Keyword(s):  
Continuing Education ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Continuing Professional Education ◽  
Lay Ministry ◽  
Religious Organizations ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
C Programs ◽  
Lay Ministers ◽  
Group B

Research into continuing professional education (CPE) has been a constant for many professionals, including those pastors and clergy who work in religious organizations. Continuing education for lay ministers (non-ordained) in churches, however, generally has not been given this close scrutiny or attention. This article reports on research conducted with 35 leaders of lay ministry education programs in Canada, to provide information on their (a) demographics as a group (b) attitudes toward church and church bodies, and the amount of support they received from the community, and (c) programs and their participants. This study contributes to an understanding of continuing education for lay ministry.

scholarly journals On the experience of health professionals’ information competence formation in the framework of continuing professional education

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (33) ◽  
pp. e16323
Author(s):  
Elena Yu. Nikitina ◽  
Larisa Yu. Ovsyanitskaya ◽  
Natalia V. Butenko ◽  
Marina V. Zhukova ◽  
Lidiya P. Rulevskaya
Keyword(s):  
Continuing Education ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Education Development ◽  
Modern Level ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Pedagogical Approaches

Immediacy of such a problem as health professionals’ information competence formation is due to the necessity of continuing improvement of pedagogical approaches, methods and technologies of educating medical staff how to use information technologies in their professional activity to provide for their correspondence to the stable and outrunning level of society development in the process of education and healthcare digital transformation. The article aims at the formation of methodological approaches to the pedagogical process studying the use of information technologies in the framework of post-graduate continuing education of health professionals taking into account their professional requirements and work specifics. The leading method of the problem study is the method of involved observation that enabled to make authentic comparison and analyze inquiries of 349 professionals attending the courses of continuing education. The article shows that the applied pedagogical approaches and methods have to correspond to the modern level of information technologies and digital education development, characterized by qualitative changes in the technologies that process and transfer data and widely use the intellectual decision making systems. It states the results obtained in the practical implementation of the offered theoretical and methodological approaches to the process of health professionals’ information competence formation. This results in the developed complex of methodological approaches to teaching information technologies at the general scientific, specific scientific and method and technological levels enabling the formation of health professionals’ information competence. The article can be useful for students and teachers of pedagogical universities, teachers of medical universities and institutions involved in health professionals’ continuing education.

scholarly journals DEVELOPMENT OF INNOVATIONS IN CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 6-22
Author(s):  
I.O. Kotlyarova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Continuing Education ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Continuing Professional Education ◽  
External Factors ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
Lifelong Education ◽  
Educational Innovations ◽  
Force Majeure ◽  
Theoretical Foundations

The paper aims to study the methodological and theoretical foundations of the development of innovations in the field of continuing professional education (CPE). The methodological foundations of the study of the phenomenon of innovation in CPE (general laws of dialectics, systemic, synergetic and acmeological approaches) are identified and characterized. The external factors of the education sector cased by globalization, internationalization, digitalization and the “force majeure” of pandemic were determined and their influence on the development of CPE in the first quarter of the XXI century was revealed. The features of the current continuing education were revealed. They were developed both under the influence of environmental factors and as a result of internal tendencies of self-organization. On the basis of a theoretical analysis of the requirements for education caused by these factors, the types of CPE problems were formulated. The necessary nature of educational innovations was substantiated. The role of innovations in resolving the problems of continuing education was described. Typical modern innovations and their role in the development of continuing education as an aspect of a person's lifelong education were characterized.

scholarly journals The Development of a Self-Assessment Instrument to Evaluate Selected Competencies of Continuing Education Practitioners

2013 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sherry Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Continuing Education ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Professional Competence ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Assessment Instrument ◽  
Prior Learning ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Adult And Continuing

Adult and continuing education practitioners must engage in continuing professional education as a means of developing and maintaining their professional competence. This paper reviews the literature on competencies for continuing educators and examines the strengths of existing instruments for continuing educators to self-assess their competencies. One of the challenges in this process has been a means to systematically and comprehensively assess existing knowledge and skills and to identify where competencies are not adequate. This paper describes an assessment instrument that addresses these challenges and builds on the strengths of existing tools. It describes the development of a tool through a consultative process that identified the range of practitioner competencies required of adult and continuing educators. The assessment tool incorporates a behaviorally based approach to assessing identified competencies. It is unique because it addresses many of the needs identified in the literature including well articulated criteria for making judgments about a person’s current knowledge and skills, a format that allows for clear identification of gaps in learning so that meaningful professional development can take place, the clear structure needed to develop a “portfolio” of skills, and a format that requires the provision of evidence to support claims of proficiency in the identified areas. Though the development of the tool was initiated through the development of Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition processes, it is anticipated that it will be useful for continuing educators to undertake self-assessments as a basis for hiring, career laddering, and planning their ongoing professional development activities and goals. In both cases it provides a framework for meaningful reflection, assessment, gap identification, and planning.

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