CPD: how to fit it into your everyday nursing practice
All nursing staff have to complete 35 hours of continuing professional development (CPD) over a three year period to remain registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council. The key to making this manageable is to treat it as a regular activity and to continually update your learning and knowledge. Primary Health Care offers career updates, CPD articles and quizzes to help keep you on track
Primary Health Care offers career updates, continuing professional development articles and quizzes to keep you on track
Time is a commodity that there simply is not enough of in nursing. The seemingly ever-increasing workloads and challenging environments make everyday tasks difficult enough without any further demands on nursing staff’s precious time – yet the requirement for continuing professional development (CPD) is a cornerstone of nursing .
All nursing staff have to complete 35 hours of CPD relevant to their scope of practice over a three-year period to remain registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council. The key to making this requirement manageable is to treat it as a regular activity rather than waiting for revalidation time to appear on the horizon before doing something about it.
Given the essential nature of keeping up to date with new developments and best practice, our career advice article CPD: is one hour a month enough for nurses’ career development? provides a number of straightforward approaches to embedding the processes of learning new skills and honing those already acquired into everyday nursing practice.
CPD is a vitally important part of nursing staff’s learning process
In addition, we have one of our comprehensive CPD articles, Psoriasis: optimising patients’ quality of life in primary and community care settings, which covers everything nurses need to know from the aetiology and assessment of the condition through to the wide variety of treatments available and when to escalate care.
The intended learning outcomes are clear and the time-out activities are focused on the crucial aspects of improving outcomes for patients. There is also a challenging multiple-choice quiz, Psoriasis: optimising patient care, included at the end, designed to test the knowledge acquired.
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CPD might sometimes seem like an extra burden but incorporating this vitally important learning process seamlessly into the routine aspects of nursing makes it far easier to achieve and maintain. It is what makes nurses into the adaptable, flexible and indispensable professionals they are.
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