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The American Nurses Association and co-publisher National Nursing Staff Development Organization announced this month the release of Nursing Professional Development: Scope and Standards of Practice, the long-awaited update of a key resource for a dynamic and complex practice specialty.
Previous editions have conceived nursing professional development primarily by its overlapping and equivalent practice domains: staff development, continuing education, and academia.
Major transformations in nursing professional development practice (NPD) have been underway since the previous edition published in 2000. Within the continuing education and academic domains, technology has changed the learning environment and the potential target audiences. Once locally or regionally defined, the target audience - the NPD specialist - is now global.
According to ANA, the newly revised resource reflects the complex and rapidly developing factors that influence its current and future practice: globalization, dynamic practice environments, evidence-based practice, and the technologies of nursing and health care.
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