Evaluating the impact of continuing professional education on healthcare practice: the rhetoric and the reality
Evaluating the impact of continuing professional education on healthcare practice: the rhetoric and the reality
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评估继续专业教育对医疗保健实践的影响:言辞与现实
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2007
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Elizabeth Clark
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Janet Draper;Elizabeth Clark
(2007). Evaluating the impact of continuing professional education on healthcare practice: the rhetoric and the reality. Nurse Education Today, 27(6) pp. 515–517. For guidance on citations see FAQs. c [not recorded] Version: [not recorded] Link(s) to article on publisher's website: Copyright and Moral Rights for the articles on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. For more information on Open Research Online's data policy on reuse of materials please consult the policies page. Despite a significant global investment in continuing professional education (CPE) in nursing and health care (Jordan, 2000) and a lack of empirical evidence of its effectiveness (Clark, 2005; Attree, 2006), it has nevertheless continued to be a focus of UK government lifelong learning strategies. For example, the Department of Health in England asserted that 'Every aspect of healthcare delivery and strategies for health depends on the education and skills of individual staff. Investment in their learning and personal development is, in a real sense, spending on patients and is essential to the future quality of the health service' (DoH, 2002, p.7, our emphasis). However, in the current climate of needs-led education and outcomes-driven health services, not just in the UK but worldwide , those responsible for developing and delivering CPE simply cannot afford to rely on such rhetoric to safeguard the ongoing support for CPE across the health services, however much we would like to do so! It is imperative that we are able to articulate the added value of CPE to direct patient and client care to employers, those commissioning healthcare education as well as potential students. Our own experience in this area (Draper and Clark, 2006; Draper et al., 2007) leads us to believe that the situation internationally may not be significantly different. It could perhaps be argued that it is already too late in the UK because of the significant cuts in CPE that have already happened in the past year: a 10% cut in training by strategic health authorities (SHAs) in the 2006/07 financial year. SHAs are also planning to take more than £117million from the training budget in the current (2007/08) financial year, with some SHAs cutting their budget in order to boost reserves (News item, page 7). In response, the Editor of the HSJ makes the case that 'training drives up performance and productivity, which translates into higher-quality, more effective and safer care' (Vize, 2007, p.3). …