Skip to main content

Continuous Education for Nurses

  • Chapter
  • First Online:
Office 365 for Healthcare Professionals
  • 699 Accesses

Abstract

Healthcare and nursing are both currently riding a steeply cresting wave of change and innovation. It is difficult to point to any one event as the impetus to the change and innovation that has struck the healthcare industry in just the last few years. The book Nine Shift states that between 2000 and 2020, 75 percent of how we live our daily lives (work, life, and education) in the twenty-first century will change. Since we spend about 12 hours every day doing essential tasks such as eating and sleeping, for the rest of the 12 hours in a day, 75 percent, or 9 hours, will be spent doing things totally differently than we did just a few years ago. The last major shift was from 1900 to 1920, when we moved from an agrarian farming way of life to being industrialized, and now we are moving from an industrialized to a knowledge society. These predictions are already beginning to see fruition in many aspects of our lives, including healthcare and education.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Subscribe and save

Springer+
from €37.37 /Month
  • Starting from 10 chapters or articles per month
  • Access and download chapters and articles from more than 300k books and 2,500 journals
  • Cancel anytime
View plans

Buy Now

eBook
EUR 29.99
Price includes VAT (Netherlands)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
EUR 41.41
Price includes VAT (Netherlands)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

Notes

  1. 1.

    “Nurse: Continuing Education Requirements for Nurses,” http://study.com/articles/Nurse_Continuing_Education_Requirements_for_Nurses.html

  2. 2.

    Nursing Education Challenges, Carol Wilson, PhD, FNP-BC, RN, May 2011 - Volume 7 - Issue 11

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

Authors

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2018 Nidhish Dhru

About this chapter

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this chapter

Dhru, N. (2018). Continuous Education for Nurses. In: Office 365 for Healthcare Professionals. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3549-2_8

Download citation

Publish with us

Policies and ethics