Characteristics of Learning of Nurses in the Continuing Nursing Management Education Program

Abstract

This study aimed to clarify the characteristics of the learning of nurses who participated in the Continuing Nursing Management (CNM) education program (basic version), and to obtain suggestions for the significance of the education program and its future use. After their training, 252 participants in the CNM program completed a self-administered questionnaire survey. A total of 188 valid responses (74.6%) were analyzed. The survey consisted of 19 evaluation items for the CNM training and free descriptions of “new learning” and “application in practice.” The training participants included ward nurses, discharge support nurses, outpatient nurses, visiting nurses, and educators. The results showed that visiting nurses had significantly higher scores than ward nurses on five out of the 19 evaluation items. Ward nurses learned CNM as a new concept of practice, whereas visiting nurses reflected on their own practice and connected CNM to it. CNM training provides an opportunity for nurses working in diverse settings to learn to understand patients as consumers and to be goal-oriented by viewing patients from a time-based perspective. In addition, it encourages them to understand each other according to recognized characteristics and their roles.