The Purpose and Practicalities of Postgraduate Education

2002 ◽  
Vol 65 (5) ◽  
pp. 245-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Auldeen Alsop ◽  
Carol Lloyd

This article suggests ways in which continuing professional education might contribute to occupational therapists' ongoing professional development. It highlights the need to view critical skills as a feature of competent practice and discusses the relative merits of enhancing these skills through workplace learning and postgraduate study. It is suggested that occupational therapists aspiring to leadership positions and consultant therapist posts seek postgraduate opportunities to prepare themselves for these roles. Consideration is given both to how occupational therapists might make choices about programmes of continuing education and to how they might prepare to undertake postgraduate study.

Author(s):  
Olena Volyarska

Comprehensive analysis of scientific studies of national and foreign scientists showed that the problem of the teachers’ professional development improvement has been represented in theoretical and practical philosophical, psychological and pedagogical science. The analysis of development of the postgraduate education tendencies, life-long professional education of adult learners, long-term scientific and pedagogical experience have revealed the relevance of research in the improving of the teachers professional development. This research has been appropriated by the increased requirements for postgraduate education and traditional approaches to the development of the teachers’ professional competences and by the necessity to cope with the existing stereotypes, changing attitudes and approaches to the teachers’ professional growth.The aim of the research is to identify the spheres of improvement for the professional development of teachers in the system of postgraduate education.The interpretation of the teachers’ professional development has been defined as an increase of their professional competence in the result of practical experience and prolonged purposeful and coordinated self-education in the conditions of formal, non-formal and informal adult education.The main directions of improvement of Ukrainian teachers’ professional development in our in-service teacher training include: 1) systematic implementation of educational innovation in postgraduate education content; 2) development of the blended forms of teacher training for providing educational possibilities for various special optional courses, trainings and seminars on full-time training conferences, consultations, participation in online conferences, electronic forums, chats on the distance remote basis; 3) creation of a system of the various modular courses and teacher trainings, which provides a clear definition, diagnosis and monitoring of professional competence components, based on a modular educational technology and which is one of the modern innovations in adult education; 4) development of partnership subject-subject interaction in in-service training, where the participants of training activities are oriented to the professional development, personal and professional growth.The results of studies have stated that a comprehensive personal training for teachers should be oriented to the development of their willingness to increase the effectiveness of the professional activities. In the further researches we consider the necessity of studying and generalization of international and national databases on the teachers’ continuous professional development.


2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessie Johnson ◽  
Arlene Masaba ◽  
Sadia Munir ◽  
Robin O’Dwyer ◽  
Amber Smith ◽  
...  

Background: Nurses play a crucial role in the prevention of communicable diseases through the public health immunization programs. Knowledge, attitude and practices of health care providers have significant impact on the vaccine administration and education of adults and parents of children.Objective: The present qualitative study aims to explore the knowledge, attitude and practices of nurses in Qatar before and after the delivery of the immunization-related continuous professional development program.Methods: 10 out of 125 nurses who have completed the training program volunteered to participate in the face-to-face interviews. Data was then collected, transcribed and analysed by the researcher team members.Results: Themes identified from this study: Empowerment, advancing practice and continuing education. Participants felt more confident and had a sense of fulfilment on completion of the education program. Practicing evidenced based skills and methods achieved an outcome of better quality of care, which can directly affect practice. Participants also felt that continuing education allows them to become self-motivated to keep up with new and emerging knowledge. Taken together, our data revealed that continuing professional education immunization-training program was successful in improving the knowledge, attitude and practices of the participants.Conclusions: Continued education beyond traditional baccalaureate nursing programs in order to ensure nurses possess the knowledge to safely handle, teach and administer vaccines is needed.


2002 ◽  
Vol 65 (5) ◽  
pp. 237-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne E K Roberts

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.


2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 1111-1116
Author(s):  
Maria Spasova

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.


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