background: documentation is one of the nurses’ professional tasks, which is an important component of medical evidence and patient’s record. finding effective teaching methods for enhancing nurses’ ability in documentation can be helpful. aim: this study was performed to determine the effect of continuing education program on nurse’s knowledge, attitude and performance about documentation. met...

Background: Documentation is one of the nurses’ professional tasks, which is an important component of medical evidence and patient’s record. Finding effective teaching methods for enhancing nurses’ ability in documentation can be helpful. Aim: This study was performed to determine the effect of continuing education program on nurse’s knowledge, attitude and performance about documentation. Met...

Aim The study assessed the documentation of nursing care before, during and after the Standardized Nursing Language Continuing Education Programme (SNLCEP). It evaluates the differences in documentation of nursing care in different nursing specialty areas and assessed the influence of work experience on the quality of documentation of nursing care with a view to provide information on documenta...

complications and difficulties in modern nursing resulted in a need of continuing education and familiarity with new developments in biological and social sciences. this need is responded by participation in educational courses in organizations and high educational institutes. based on this trend and the observable and continually changes in nursing care methods providing a high level caring se...

Instructions: 1.2 contact hours will be awarded by Villanova University College of Nursing upon successful completion of this activity. A contact hour is a unit of measurement that denotes 60 minutes of an organized learning activity. This is a learner-based activity. Villanova University College of Nursing does not require submission of your answers to the quiz. A contact hour certificate will...

background: training methods that enhance nurses' learning and retention will increase the quality of patient care. this study aimed to compare the effectiveness of electronic learning and educational booklet on the nurses' retention of diabetes updates.   methods: in this controlled trial study, convenience sampling was used to select 123 nurses from the endocrinology and internal medicine war...

background: training methods that enhance nurses’ learning and retention will increase the quality of patient care. this study aimed to compare the effectiveness of electronic learning and educational booklet on the nurses’ retention of diabetes updates.   methods: in this controlled trial study, convenience sampling was used to select 123 nurses from the endocrinology and internal medicine war...

Recent evidence has provided a clear mandate for change in the way that registered nurses are educated-in both academic and continuing nursing education environments. This article explores strategies for changing the usual and customary approaches to better meet the needs of learners and prepare them to function effectively in a complex and challenging health care environment.

Terminology used in the field of continuing nursing education and nursing professional development can be confusing. This article defines common terms and explains the importance of their correct usage. J Contin Nurs Educ. 2018;49(1):19-25.

This paper proposes an action research model as basis for the management of change in continuing professional distance education (CPDE). The model proposed emerged from the need to manage a complex change process from traditional paper-based distance education to e-learning. In order to illustrate and support the model proposed, this paper describes and discusses such a change process in a CPDE...