CONSTRAINING FACTORS TO CONTINUING EDUCATION AMONG NURSES IN THREE SELECTED HOSPITALS IN ENUGU STATE

📄 Project Abstract

Professional development needs are challenged by multifarious reasons that place barriers to their fulfillment. The World Health Organization World Health Report (WHO, 2000) states that human resources are the most important of the health system's resource inputs. The performance of health care systems ultimately depends on the knowledge, skills and motivation of the people responsible for delivering services. Education and training are key investment tools as old skills become obsolete with the advent of new technologies (Richards, 2008). This is in line with strategic planning of World Health reports, which places emphasis on the need for continuing care providers. Nurses are required to be competent practitioners, have scientific base for education for health practice, be knowledgeable to communicate with increasingly informed patients/family members and have a mastery of technology in the dynamic arena of patient care and condition. As an example, where education and training for ...