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Continuing education refers to activities used to maintain, develop, or improve healthcare workers’ knowledge, skills, professional performance, and relationships for providing services to patients, society, or their profession. This study aimed to evaluate the current status of continuing nursing education in Iran and the world. The relevant articles were extracted from Blackwell, Science Direct, CINAHL PubMed, Proquest, Google Scholar, and Google databases using the following keywords: “continuing education”, “continuing professional development”, and “lifelong learning”. This paper was focused on history of continuing education as well as goals of continuing nursing education programs in Iran and some other countries. The results revealed that holding continuing nursing education courses improved nurses’ orientation about professional issues and new professional contents.
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