Permanent education in nursing: support for professional practice

Abstract

In their practice, nurses are in constant educational process. To become aware of this process, they need to perform their actions with critical reflection, curiosity, creativity, and investigation by means of permanent, continuing and in-service education. Thus, this theoretical reflection aims at supporting discussions relative the continuity of nurses’ professional training, keeping in mind that undergraduate Nursing students are expected to become critical, reflective, and competent professionals in learning how to learn. The assumption is that the importance of permanent education is realized in the search of educational proposals that encourage selfknowledge, improvement, and modernization.