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ON
ADULT LEARNING
AND
CONTINUING EDUCATION
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Sr. Josy
Asso. Professor
SRMMCON
Submitted on : 06/04/09
ADULT LEARNING
AND
CONTINUING EDUCATION
GENERAL OBJECTIVE
At the end of the presentation group will able to gain knowledge about adult
learning and continuing education.
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
At the end of the presentation group will able to
ADULT LEARNING
INTRODUCTION
Democracy can succeed only when the general public is adequately educated in the
principles and implications of the same. This is possible only when the people are
literate. So after the achievement of independence our leaders planned to promote
education of the illiterate adult who were entitled to vote.
Adult education must e taken up earnestly and systematically. Much has been done
in the area of adult education in many Western countries. In their comparison e
have done very little in this field. In the Western countries adult education has been
made available to laborer, women and a many service-class people. Though adult
education they have not been made only literate, but they have also further
developed their professional skills in commerce, industry, technology and science.
They are given free education evening and part-time day classes and University
extension classes have been arranged for the benefit of these people. So far we
have been able to do a little in this field.
CONTINUING EDUCATION
INTRODUCTION
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
FEATURES
Unified approach
Relationships with others systems
Comprehensiveness
Accessibility for women health workers
Integration with the management process
Analysis of needs as a basis for learning continuity
Internally coordinated
Relevance in planning
Credibility and economic
Appropriateness in implementation
NEED
To ensure safe and effective nursing care, nurse need to keep abreast with
internet, knowledge and technical advances.
FUNCTION
PHILOSOPHY
ELEMENTS
The philosophies of continuing nursing education recognize the
1) Learner as a person, as a nurse and as a citizen. Thus continuing nursing
education is seen as a totality, a sound philosophy of education recognizes
all three aspects of lifelong learning.
Diversity is a part of learning process and contributes to the development of
the individual so the teacher has to make the learner to involve in nursing
and non-nursing courses, e.g. music, dance, participating in extra-curricular
activities. It encourages provincialism among nurses, benefit by learning
with persons from other walks of life.
The learner in his plays many different roles e.g. adult, family member,
learner friend, etc. for every aspect of life there are some continuing
elements.
It aims as self-directed learning
2) Teacher/Nurse educator
He has to accept the concept of life long learning and his responsibility to
encourage nurses to recognize the value of participating in different types of
educational activities.
Teacher should act as a role model.
The skillful teacher has to aware of the difference in learning what is already
PRINCIPLES :
Provision for school and nursing faculty involvement in planning and
teaching the continuing nursing education courses tends to maintain high
educational standards for the programme.
An adequate staff is essential to planning, implementing and evaluating a
programme which is based on learning needs and which has an impact on
the quality of nursing care provided.
Responsibilities of the director of continuing nursing education are
o Determination of learning needs of the nurse population.
o Development and implementation of a programme to meet these
needs.
o Evaluation of results.
Staff services are required with sufficient talent and numbers to
implement the planned programme.
o Advisory.
o Secretarial
o Administrative
o Supportive (Additional
supportive
services
may
required
periodically)
o Assistance with
Research
Publicity
questionnaire
Evaluation tools
Data analysis
Computer programming
An advisory committee has to be appointed which includes :
Faculty members from a variety of areas of nursing practice.
Directors of hospital nursing services.
Representatives from the state licensing authority, health
department and voluntary agencies.
Regional Medical programme.
Other agencies involved in the delivery of health care in the
community.
PLANNING :
A successful continuing Nursing education programme is the result of careful and
detailed planning.
Aspect of continuing nursing education planning
Broad planning by institution and agencies responsible for continuing
Nursing Education.
Specific planning by individuals for their own continuing education.
Planning to essential in
o Meet the nursing needs
o Use available resources
o Avoid duplication and fragmentation of effort.
PLANNING PROCESS :
1) Establishing goals with the purpose of philosophy of the organization.
Purpose gives direction in planning. It identifies the reason for existence.
Purpose are based on the learning needs and social needs. So it has to be
reviewed from time to time and restated as appropriate.
2) Establishing goals and objectives :
Planning moves towards goals which are significant and realistic,
which can be attained. Goals servers to stimulate and direct action
should be reachable.
An objective is specific, it is a desired end or accomplishment to be
sought.
3) Determining needs and priorities (the course of action required to meet the
specific objective)
4) Assess the available resources for establishing the programme.
5) Plan the budget appropriate for the programme.
ORGANISATION
Programming of professional courses in Nursing is a joint responsibility of a
director of continuing Nursing Education and a Dean of school of nursing the
formal channels of communication make possible the optional use of the nursing
faculty to explore the needs of continuing nursing.
ORGANIZATIONAL PATTERN A
Organizational chart of continuing Nursing Education showing joint responsibility
for the continuing Nursing Education.
BOARD OF REGENTS
PRESIDENT
DEAN OF
CONTINUING
NURSING
EDUCATION
DEAN OF SCHOOL
OF NURSING
DEAN OF OTHER
DEPARTMENTS
DIRECTOR OF
CONFERENCES
DIRECTOR OF
CONTINUING
NURSING
EDUCATION
ADVISORY
COMMITTEE
CONTINUING
NURSING
EDUCATION
BOARD OF REGENTS
PRESIDENT
OTHER
DEANS
ORGANIZATIONAL
PATTERN B
DEAN OF SCHOOL
OF NURSING
ADVISOR
BOARD OF REGENTS
PRESIDENT
DEAN OF
CONTINUING
EDUCATION
DEAN OF SCHOOL
OF NURSING
DIRECTOR OF
EXECUTIVE
CONFERENCES
COMMITTEE
OTHER
DEANS
DIRECTOR OF
GRADUATE AND
BASIC
PROGRAMMES
ORGANIZATIONAL PATTERN C
CONTINUING
OTHER Nursing
SCHOOL
Organizational chart showing joint
responsibility for the continuing
EDUCATION
OF NURSING
education programme on a committee
level.
COMMITTEE
COORDINATOR
FOR CONTINUING
EDUCATION
COMMITTEES
BOARD OF REGENTS
PRESIDENT
Organizational chart showing centralized responsibility for the continuing Nursing
Education Programme.
DEAN OF
GENERAL
DEAN OF SCHOOL
OF NURSING
EDUCATION
DIRECTOR OF
NURSING
FACULTY
CONCLUSION :
Adult learning Democracy can succeed only when only when the general public is
adequately educated in the principles and implications of the same. In adult
learning we will discuss in philosophy of adult learning, adult learning in India.
Need of education for adult.
Continuing Nursing education is a Modern imperative, it must be future oriented.
In continuing education discuss in Definition of continuing education, Features,
Need, Function, philosophy, elements, principles planning, planning process,
writing the proposal and organization pattern chart.
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