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Barriers to Continuing Professional Development Among Nurses in Saudi Arabia
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Question 1
Barriers to Continuing Professional Development Among Nurses in Saudi Arabia
Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is a constant learning course that fights to
advance a professional's capability by advancing and amending awareness and abilities for the
career due to modernizing scientific and technological advances. CPD is intended to help
registered nurses and assistant preserve, improve, and advance their career knowledge,
encounter, and capacity to fulfill their responsibility to provide humane, effective, secure, and
efficient care. CPD is beneficial to nurses as it also improves patient care as it looks at the
doctor's entire practice and invites reflection. CPD is one approach for a doctor to show that
they are staying current with their practice and growing the skills needed for their job.
Even though all the benefits of CPD, nurses in Saudi Arabia are finding it hard to fully and
effectively participate in CPD due to some barriers. Time constraint has been a significant
barrier to Saudi Arabian nurses not participating in CPD. Due to the shortage of nurses, the
available nurses work under a very tight schedule, which makes them lack time for studying
( Alshammari et al., 2021) . When they come out of work, they are already tired due to the
many patients they attend. The workload is too high for nurses in Saudi to the extent that they
have no time for CPD.
Distance to CPD events is another barrier to Saudi nurses; most CPD events are primarily
held in urban places and major medical facilities. When those events are repeatedly held in
such places, it becomes hard for the nurses in remote areas to attend such events and thus
missing such opportunities ( Doughty, 2021) . Some nurses are very far from where CPD
events are held, and when they calculate the cost, they find it hard to attend such events.

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Financial constraints make it hard for nurses in Saudi to participate in CPD fully; the CPD
events and classes require financial support. Some CPD programs are costly, and nurses find it
hard to pay for such programs considering their pay. Nurses have families to take care of and
other responsibilities they prioritize first hence failing to budget for CPD.
There is a lack of knowledge about learning opportunities among the nurses in Saudi
Arabia; some of the nurses are not aware of the learning opportunities. Such nurses who are
not aware do not attend hence becoming a barrier. The is still poor communication and poor
study days notification. The study days are communicated within a short notice making it hard
for nurses to plan and allocate time to attend the studies.