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Nursing Continuing Education Seminars

admin — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 12:57:09 +0000

The word “Seminar” comes from the Latin word “semen,” meaning “seed.” Just as a seed helps the plant to grow, Seminars help professionals to grow by unlocking their full potential.

Seminars are discussion forums in which small groups of students interact with a teacher to discuss a specific topic. Since the mid ‘90s, with the advent of the Internet, `face-to-face’ or `in-person’ Seminars are increasingly supported or sometimes even replaced by `computer aided’ ones. The latter don’t require participant’s in-person attendance.

Whether face-to-face or computer-aided, NCE Seminars are events where professional people discuss problem-solving approaches. They may review case studies, participate in role play or computer-assisted simulations, attend lectures, participate in roundtable discussions with experts or take tests and exams. They acquire powerful learning experience applicable to new situations. NCE Seminars offer tremendous possibilities for nurses to actively collaborate with expert faculty and peers [from different states or countries] under one roof.

Seminars usually last one or two days. Face-to-face Seminars often provide a continental breakfast and/or lunch to the participants.

As far as face-to-face Seminars are concerned, most often, participants from different areas gather at one place, say a teaching hospital, where experts are invited and Seminars held. Some Seminars are tailor-made to suit the specific requirements of the participants in any one area or hospital, and held in-house in this location. Such Seminars have great advantages, as they address specific issues that are unique to the organization. If the participants are large in number, an on-site Seminar is more economical.

There are Seminars that are held exclusively for the benefit of earning credits and provide some kind of measurable results to the participants.

Using Internet search tools, one can search for Seminars by topic or by region and choose from an array of them. There are several Seminar providers whose curriculum includes hundreds of courses to choose from.

By: Richard Romando

Improve Your Nursing Skills By Online Continuing Education Programmes

admin — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:33:50 +0000

Online nursing continuing education programmes can offer you with current expertise and also higher level of education that is required to fulfill existing and future demands of health care industry. Professionally recognized online nursing education courses are offered by several online nursing schools that suits to your needs. Continuing online nursing education is an alternative to conventional education system where you are required to attend your classes regularly in campus to obtain a degree .As such studying in campus you are supposed to devote fulltime to your studies. But in online system you can even earn while learning.

Online associate nursing degree is meant for new aspirants who wish enter into the profession and be a certified nurse . Online associate nursing degree school offers such courses and also provide continuing learning opportunity for any nurse who wish to update knowledge and clinical competency in order to meet the professional continuing education requirement for renewal of license.

Online nursing continuing education has also been found to be beneficial for even those licensed registered nurses who have been inactive for sometime and would like to return to clinical practice once again. Such nurses generally find professional inactivity to be a deterrent in their re-employment, as such, need to take refresher courses to update their knowledge.

The most attractive feature about online nursing continuing education is that you are getting an online nursing education where there is no age limit to obtain a nursing degree course but you need to select accredited courses from an affiliated online nursing schools.

On account of constantly growing opportunities for nurses, one with a online associate nursing degree can easily get work in hospitals, private clinics, and nursing homes, rehabilitation centers and even as health educator in college or university. The work opportunities for a nurse with nursing degree are definitely very promising and challenging.

By: Ekta Jain

Free Nursing Continuing Education

admin — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:06:17 +0000

There are many organizations that offer accredited, Free Continuing Education courses through their websites. These are mostly demo or pre-registration versions. Registration in these sites is free. Once the aspirant registers, the website sends the password by email. This password can be used to access all info, such as the list of courses available, cost and number of hours allotted for each course, and FAQs.

For instance, http://www.nursingmatters.com hosts one pre-registration, free course every month. For November it is a 1-hour course on `Pediatric Psychopharmacology’.

The range of programs offered by these sites is astoundingly broad and include topics such as the following: Age-Specific Considerations in Patient Care, An Overview of Alzheimer’s Disease, Breastfeeding: The Basics, ECG Interpretation: Learning the Basics, Ecstasy: Under the Influence, Latex Allergy: More Than Skin Deep, Perspectives on Childhood Poisoning, Performance Improvement: A Change for the Better, and What’s up at the Joint? New Tracer Methodology. While most courses are of 1 or 2 hours’ duration, some may go up to 8 hours or more depending upon the topic concerned.

Many of these courses use multimedia and communicational platforms such as interactivity, voicemail, video conferencing and more. They also incorporate highly interactive seminars and assessment sessions. At the end of any course, the end user can take an assessment test and get his performance evaluated instantly. All these can be done at any time that is convenient to the end user.

Several Continuing Education organizations offer free courses to nurses, particularly in times of human need. One such course is `Hurricane Katrina: Preventing Infectious Diseases’, a 1.5-hour course offered by Wild Iris Medical Education, as advertised in their website http://www.nursingceu.com. Such courses can be a boon to the community.

By: Richard Romando