Continuing midwifery education beyond graduation: Student midwives' awareness of continuous professional development

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Please cite this article as: Embo, M., Valcke, M., Continuing midwifery education beyond graduation: Student midwives' awareness of continuous professional development, Nurse Education in Practice (2015), doi: 10.1016/j.nepr.2015.08.013. This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain. M A N U S C R I P T A C C E P T E D ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT1 Journal: Nurse Education in Practice TitleContinuing midwifery education beyond graduation: student midwives' awareness of continuous professional development. KEYWORDSContinuous Professional Development, activities, undergraduate, midwives, reflection, midwifery practice ABSTRACTMidwifery education plays an important role in educating graduates about engaging in continuous professional development (CPD) but there is a lack of empirical research analysing student midwives' awareness of CPD beyond graduation. We aimed to explore student midwives' awareness of the need to become lifelong learners and to map their knowledge of CPD activities available after graduation. Therefore, forty-seven reflective documents, written in the last week of student midwives' training programme, were analysed in a thematic way. Content analysis confirmed student midwives' awareness of the importance of CPD before graduation. They mentioned different reasons for future involvement in CPD and described both, formal and informal CPD-activities. Respondents were especially aware of the importance of knowledge, to a lesser degree of skills-training and still less of the potential value of the Internet for individual and collective learning.Respondents perceived a need for a mandatory preceptorship. Supporting learning guides were highly valued and the importance of reflection on CPD was well-established. This could have resulted from an integrated reflective learning strategy during education.

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