Utilization Conditions of Virtual Education at Continuing Education for Nurses: A review

Along with advances in technology and education, applying a new method is felt toprovide effective instruction. To keep pace with the growing knowledge, the servicetraining is an integral component of education especially in the field of medicaleducation. Because the limitations of many disciplines to attend training classes,Conventional methods will not be able to meet these educational needs. So, virtualeducation can be an efficient supplement for training in this area. The present study isa systematic review of relevant studies of virtual education in-service training ofnurses. With the systematic review method the Persian and Latin databases: Iranmedex, Iran doc, SID, CINHAL, Cochran, PubMed, Science Direct, Eric weresearched by keywords: nursing, e-learning, continuous education, and virtualeducation that 1330 articles were found. In line with to i the entry criteria, 13 articleswere selected to answer the research questions. The results indicate that the use ofvirtual education requires an appropriate model, the specific requirements andfacilities and planning implementation in process. Virtual education is an effectiveway to increase knowledge and practice and can be a good complement toconventional in-service education for nurses. Although it may not have significantadvantages in learning and performance improvement compared to conventioneducational methods, but its effectiveness can be increased significantly with properand comprehensive planning.

Keywords:

Nursing , e-Learning , Continues Education , Virtual Education