Development of the Support System for Continuing Education Program Planning in Nursing

本课题通过以下几个方面的研究开发了《护理继续教育课程规划支持系统》。该系统的目的是为日本医院护士和护理人员制定继续教育计划提供支持。首先，调查日本护士对学习资源的利用情况和学习需求的满足程度。结果显示，护士利用了大量的学习资源，但仍不能满足学习需求。并对美国、加拿大、澳大利亚、英国四个国家的护理继续教育文献进行综述，找出影响护理继续教育发展进程的因素。此外，研究人员走访了这些国家，收集了护理继续教育的现状和问题的信息。第二，为医院护士和护理教师开发了两种学习需求评估工具(CLNAT、FLNAT)和两种教育需求评估工具(CENAT、FENAT)，通过使用这些评估工具进行调查，确定了员工发展(SD)和教师发展(FD)的领域和内容。同时揭示了日本医院护士和护理师资队伍的特点及目前面临的问题。在已构建的理论框架的基础上，构建了SD、FD护理继续教育项目规划的模型，通过整合所有结果和因素，开发了《护理继续教育项目规划支持系统》。今后，有必要对该系统的有效性进行测试，并为社区护士、助产士和其他人员开发其他系统。

This project developed the "Support System for Continuing Education Program Planning in Nursing" by conducting the following researches. The purpose of this system is supporting to plan continuing education program for Japanese hospital nurses and nursing faculty.First, the learning resources which Japanese nurses utilized and the degree to which their learning needs was met were investigated. The results showed that nurses are utilizing many learning resources, but that they couldn't meet their learning needs. And the literature on continuing education in nursing of four countries, the US, Canada, Australia, and the UK, was reviewed to identify factors which influenced to the developing process of continuing education in nursing. Moreover, the researchers visited those countries and collected the information about present situation and issues of continuing education in nursing. All results were integrated, and the theoretical framework to develop the "Support System for Continuing Education Program Planning in Nursing" was constructed.Second, two Learning Needs Assessment Tools (CLNAT, FLNAT) and two Educational Needs Assessment Tools (CENAT, FENAT) for hospital nurses and nursing faculty were developed.Through investigation using these assessment tools, the domain and the contents for Staff Development (SD) and Faculty Development (FD) were identified. Simultaneously, the characteristics of Japanese hospital nurses and nursing faculty and the problems they faced currently were revealed. Those results were added to the theoretical framework which was already constructed, and the model for planning nursing continuing education program for SD and FD was constructed.By integrating all results and factors, the "Support System for Continuing Education Program Planning in Nursing" was developed. In the future, it is necessary to test the effectiveness of the system and to develop other system for community health nurses, midwife and others.