ABSTRACT

Developments in science and technology made continuous education of health care personnel necessary to follow and adapt to innovations on time in medicine. This continuous education may be provided by in-service training. This descriptive study was planned to determine the considerations about and expectations from in-service training programs of the nurses working at the intensive care units of the education hospital of Gulhane Military Medical Faculty. The study was performed aiming to contact to 102 personnel constituting the study population, however 90 nurses responded to the survey. It was found that nurses' expectations from in-service training were rather high (2.92 out of 3.00 points). It was also found that inservice training given met their expectations to a large extent. However, there are improvement opportunities in determining topics of training by giving importance to participants' opinions, and inservice training planning so that it can improve team spirit.