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Continuing professional development: a review

Sally Lawton Lecturer in Nursing, University of Aberdeen;

Peter Wimpenny Lecturer in the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen

In the UK health sector, continuing professional development for nurses is now clearly identified as necessary to the continued improvement of clinical services. The clinical governance movement that is driving this improvement has had a great effect on the NHS and it is now necessary to demonstrate service maintenance and improvement. Lifelong learning and the enhancement of skills through training or self-development are mentioned as ways of providing staff governance (DoH 1999, SEDH 1999).

Nursing Standard. 17, 24, 41-44. doi: 10.7748/ns2003.02.17.24.41.c3351

Correspondence

s.lawton@abdn.ac.uk

Peer review

This article has been subject to double blind peer review

Keywords :

PREP - Professional development