CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

The Role of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) in Professional Nursing Practice

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION1

CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT2

Role of Nurses4

CPD IMPROVE THE STANDARD AND QUALITY OF NURSING PRACTICE6

Science-Practice Integration7

Necessary Preparation to Supervise7

CPD RELATED TO LIFELONG LEARNING10

CPD CAN CONTRIBUTE TOWARDS COMPETENCY IN NURSING KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS12

COMPETENCY IN NURSING KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS THROUGH CPD14

CONCLUSION15

References16

Appendices18

The Role of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) in Professional Nursing Practice

INTRODUCTION

The aim of this paper is to analyze the role of continuing professional development (CPD) in nursing context. This report provides a complete understanding of CPD and the essential instruments that are required to improve the basic knowledge and skills of professional nursing practice. The report is divided into five major parts. Part one, discusses the brief introduction about the Continuing professional development. Professional development applies to nurses in all practice venues, not just direct patient care. Second part, evaluates the lifelong learning experience of individuals with relation to the nursing practice. Continuing Professional Development improves the quality and overall standards of the profession, which is discussed in-detail in the third section of the report. Every professional need certain changes timely and to implement these changes there is requirement of professional competency knowledge and skills, and the assumption of the health professions has been that training and supervision stimulate cognitive development among trainees that culminate in increased cognitive complexity by the end of training. Finally, the report presents the brief knowledge about how nurses maintain their competency in nursing knowledge and skills through CPD.

CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

The Commonwealth Government recently launched a new Nursing Board of Australia's Continuing Professional Development (CPD) standard. The focus of the report is on continuing professional development on enhancing the development of the registered nurse. This focus support by such foundational documents as the Australian Nurses Federation (ANF) Scope and Standards of Practice for Nursing Professional Development and the ANF Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements and exemplifies through accreditation criteria for CPD. Environmental and organizational adaptations are required as the landscape of health care changes (Shulman 2005).

The Scope and Standards of Practice for Nursing Professional Development define nursing professional development as "the lifelong process of active participation by nurses in learning activities that assist in developing and maintaining their continuing competence, enhance their professional practice, and support achievement of their career goals. This document describes the process of professional development as beginning with basic nursing education and continuing throughout the career of the nurse through formats such as advanced academic education, continuing education, and staff development.

The Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements addresses nine key provisions for which registered nurses are accountable. These include respect for all individuals, primacy of commitment to the patient, patient advocacy, accountability for individual nursing practice, duties to self, participation in improvements to the health care environment, participation in the advancement of the profession, collaboration with other health care professionals, and involvement in maintaining the integrity of the profession (Shulman 2005).

In this list, two items clearly emphasize the responsibility of the registered nurse in relation ...