#HeARTofNursing – increasing nurses’ impact through lifelong learning

As nurses, we hold the important thing to our own skilled development. For a few of us, institutions help us proceed our education, but ultimately we have to be our own advocates and be sure that we proceed to learn throughout our lives to advance our career and supply evidence-based patient care and improve outcomes.

What is lifelong learning?

In 2014, Davis et al. published: Delphi study defining what the concept of lifelong learning means within the nursing career. As a result, the definition was:

Lifelong learning involves gaining knowledge a couple of recent drug or piece of kit or researching a disease process the primary time one encounters it. May involve changing specialties or patient populations to expand knowledge base and areas of specialization. Perhaps you have got or are considering becoming certified in a specialty or going back to highschool to pursue a sophisticated degree. In any case, the common theme is that as nurses we are able to never stop learning and growing. Healthcare is continuously changing, so we must remain aware and knowledgeable to fulfill demands and supply the very best look after patients.

We will all the time need learning, from the day we graduate from nursing school to the day we retire. In a 2016 editorial in , Maureen Kroning, EdD, RN, shares the next observations about nursing students:

This message is essential to us and we must always remember it throughout our nursing careers. We learn something recent daily – if we’re open to it. As a career, our commitment to lifelong learning shows our colleagues and society that we’re committed to improving health.

At Wolters Kluwer, we rejoice nurses in recognition of all they do daily

MEGGIN TALLMAN, RN, BSN, Pediatric ICU – volunteer Children’s of Alabama and Mercy Ships, Birmingham, AL

Meggin Tallman is a nurse within the pediatric intensive care unit at Children’s of Alabama. For the past six years, she has worked in quite a few non-governmental organizations in various African countries as a pediatric ICU nurse, providing medical care to patients with critical needs. Tallman can be the president and founding father of the Global Health Collaboration, a resource for professionals trying to use their skills to assist underserved areas world wide, and is currently pursuing a family nurse practitioner degree on the University of North Alabama.

Davis, L., Taylor, H., and Reyes, H. (2014). Lifelong learning in nursing: A Delphi study. (3). doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2013.04.014
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Kroning, M. (2016). Called to Teach: Continuing Education in Nursing. (1).
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