ADVANCED REGISTERED NURSE PRACTITIONERS' PERCEPTIONS OF MANDATORY CONTINUING EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS FOR RELICENSURE IN THE STATE OF ARKANSAS.
Contributors: Kansas State University.
Published: 1995
Number of pages: 125
Subjects: Education, Adult and Continuing.; Health Sciences, Nursing.; Health Sciences, Mental Health.
Description: This study collected and analyzed information about the perceptions of Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioners toward and support of mandatory continuing education programs for relicensure in the state of Kansas. The study also tried to determine whether there was a difference between selected professional and personnel characteristics of Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioners and their perceptions about mandatory continuing education.

The review of literature focused on whether Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioners supported mandatory continuing education as opposed to voluntary life long learning. In this study, 76% of the participants supported continuing education.

Results of the study suggested that 76% of the Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioners participants support mandatory continuing education for safety of patient care because they feel that if it were not mandatory, many Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioners would not keep current.

Survey questionnaires were mailed to 300 Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioners in Kansas. Fifty-four percent (163) of them returned useable responses.

A stratified random sample across the specialties of Maternal/Child, Family Practice, Mental Health, Community, and Medical/Surgical nursing, was used to collect data. Results of the research suggested that because of constant changes in technology and health care delivery, ongoing continuing education is necessary. As professionals, the group objected to use of the word mandatory.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 57-01, Section: A, page: 0068.

Thesis (PH.D.)--KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY, 1995.

School code: 0100.