Continuing education is an opportunity or challenge?
Journal Title: International Journal of Medical Research & Health Sciences (IJMRHS) - Year 2016, Vol 5, Issue 9
Abstract
On the basis of continuing education (CE) legislation passed by the Islamic Consultative Assembly of Iran in 1990, the Ministry of Health and Medical Education was required to run continuing medical education rules for all professional subject to health and medical services. So, since then, nursing continuing education and its approved programs have been implemented in various forms for nurses. Concerning the importance and effectiveness of these programs in improving the level of professional knowledge, therapeutic and caring attitudes, and professional competence much has been said and a lot of documentation has been provided by researchers. But according to the investigations done by the researchers in this study, due to the necessity of investigative work that is on the way, they achieved noteworthy points in this regard that should be of interest to researchers and policy makers, especially in the field of continuing education; • According to the regulations of implementing CE education programs (1), nurses need to earn 15 points of CE, equal to 30 hours of CE. On the other hand, according to the Circular No. 620/202 / D dated 05/03/2013, Department of human Development has determined the maximum of annual training hours for holders of Diploma and Advanced Diploma qualifications 150 hours, BSc 130 hoursand MScand higher degrees 120 hours, to take benefit of all the privileges, assuming that the number of staff training hours can be on average 65 hours, and according to the statistics of 110 thousand nurses that has been declared in the nursing deputy department in 2015 (2).If 110 thousand nurses receive an average of 65 hours of education annually, a total of 6500000 hours of education has been spent for nursing staff only (not for all the professional staff of the Ministry of Health). If the average direct and indirect costs (the cost of the hall, Professor, printing, transfer, the reception, the lack of paid leave and a replacement one shift instead of the staff who are training) of every training hour in the current situation is calculated 3.5$, a cost equal to 1347500$ per year is spent on education of nursing personnel, that a cost equal to 6737500$ during five years. This happens when nursing offices of universities allocate almost no cost in the form of independent budget for training their personnel. And this amount of cost is supported by 3 autonomous centers that are hardly related to each other such as Continuing Education Center, in-service education centers and education offices of the hospitals. Therefore, if such a calculation is conducted for all disciplines subject to the rules of in-service education and CE, significant figures will be revealed that is spent on education annually. So, not only for nurses but also for the entire staff, the health and therapeutic systems of this issue should be considered. If these costs are imposed by specialized teams of educational planning (nurses’ scheduling for nursing), that know the nature of their personnel better, in more specialized aspects of any discipline in a concentrated trend in hospitals and under the supervision of nursing offices, better results and more effective developments in the national health system will be seen (3). • On the other hand, juxtaposing the nurses, given that they have very serious and aggressive duties in their job description, with other government staff in the field of in-service education is very sobering. Because ignoring.
Authors and Affiliations
Mohsen Hojat| Nursing and Midwifery Care Research Center, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran, Rahim Raofi| Zeonose Research Center, Faculty of medicine, Jahrom University of Medical Sciences, Jahrom, Iran, Fariba Talaghani| Nursing and Midwifery Care Research Center, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran, Mohsen Shahriari| Nursing and Midwifery Care Research Center, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran, Corresponding E-mail - shahriari@nm.mui.ac.ir
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