Nursing Assignment: Continuous Professional Development Analysis

This report analyzes a position statement on Continuous Professional Development (CPD) in nursing, focusing on its importance for registered nurses to maintain and enhance their knowledge, skills, and performance to deliver safe patient care. The assignment critiques the statement's structure, arguments, and use of evidence, highlighting the challenges nurses face in meeting CPD requirements while balancing patient care. It discusses the arguments for and against CPD, referencing NMBA Registered Nurse Standards for Practice and relevant literature, including government websites. The report evaluates the academic integrity, clarity, and consistency of the information, while also suggesting potential improvements, such as providing insights into the type of CPD activities registered nurses could engage in. Overall, the report provides a comprehensive analysis of the position statement, its strengths, and areas for enhancement.

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Introduction
The assignment aims to analyse the position statement on “Continuous Professional
Development”. The purpose is to provide constructive feedback using the framework guide.
Critique
The position statement in the article, “Continuous Professional Development (CPD) is a
mandatory requirement to maintain a nurse’s registration, to ensure they are able to maintain and
enhance their knowledge, skills and performance to deliver safe patient care. Yet the minimum
number of hours required is difficult for many nurses to attain, and can take away from the time
needed for patient care” is clearly stated. The title of the paper is lengthy. It could have looked
better with concise title (McMillan & Schumacher, 2014). However, the topic itself gives
overview to the readers and is interesting to grab the reader’s attention. The position statement is
highlighting the two different viewpoints related to continuous professional development. On
one hand, it is emphasised that it is necessary for the nurses to have certain CPD hours, to deliver
high quality patient care. On the other hand, it focus on the difficulty to attend the minimum
hours of CPD for nurses as it may reduce time for patients. The position statement has succinct
introduction and conclusion and is well structured.
The position statement does not deviate from the topic. It attracts the reader’s attention to
read the full text of the paper. The author of the article has laid good focus on registered nurses
and why it is important for them to achieve the CPD hours. Each of the arguments pertaining to
CPD and the registered nurse is well linked with the “NMBA Registered Nurse Standards for
Practice.” The paper well demonstrates the fact that NMBA standards support this position and
the same is comprehensively discussed.

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Relevant references are used in the position statement, giving evidence of the arguments
being supported. The evidence aligns with the topic and al the recent references are used. It is
indicative of authentic and reliable information that is supporting the position statement
(McMillan & Schumacher, 2014). The references are current and credible as some of them are
taken from Australian government websites. Websites like www.nursingmiswiferyboard.gov.au,
www.ahpra.gov.au give updated information on the chosen area of discussion. It is evident from
this supporting literature, that the author of the potion statement has conducted in depth research.
Therefore, the content of the article is convincing to the readers. Academic integrity is
highlighted by the use of credible sources (Rahimi et al., 2017).
The information provided in each paragraph is flawless and is consistent with respect to
the topic. Al the details pertaining to the CPD such as , the hours required for learning activities
in CPD, statement on national law, and the instructions of “Australian Health Practitioner
Regulation Agency” is highlighted. The arguments in favour of CPD such as why the mentioned
CPD hours are mandatory are highlighted. In this regard the author has highlighted all the
NMBA standards, that are most appropriate in this case. In this case, it includes standards 2.4,
2.7, 3.3, 3.7, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2. All of them are supported with in text citations and relevant to the
topic (Thomson, 2016). The arguments against attending 20 hours of CPD is also well justified.
Factors such as work stress, busy schedule, overload, and the outcomes of not attending the CPD
hours is discussed briefly. It would have been more better to give an insight into to the type of
CPD activities registered nurses could engage (Carlson & Bengtsson, 2015).

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Conclusion
In conclusion, the data is accurate and there is no need of adding any external references
as the academic honesty is not compromised. The information overall is clear and consistent
with the topic.

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References
Carlson, E., & Bengtsson, M. (2015). Perceptions of preceptorship in clinical practice after
completion of a continuous professional development course- a qualitative study Part II.
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McMillan, J. H., & Schumacher, S. (2014). Research in education: Evidence-based inquiry.
Pearson Higher Ed.
Rahimi, Z., Litman, D., Correnti, R., Wang, E., & Matsumura, L. C. (2017). Assessing Students’
Use of Evidence and Organization in Response-to-Text Writing: Using Natural Language
Processing for Rubric-Based Automated Scoring. International Journal of Artificial
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Thomson, P. (2016). Writing the introduction to a journal article: say what the reader is going to
encounter and why it is important. Impact of Social Sciences Blog.