Continuing Professional Education (CPE) are learning events that nurses and midwives engage in to remain current and updated in their knowledge and competencies as professional Nurses/Midwives. 
Nurses / Midwives are to ensure continuing competency in their relevant areas of practice (Code for Nurses & Midwives, SNB 2018). This can be achieved through CPE,  with the goal of providing safe client care and to keep pace with advances and innovations in healthcare.

Nurses/Midwives’ CPE must be applicable and appropriate to their context and scope of practice. CPE include (but not limited to) participation at in-services, lectures, seminars, conferences/workshops, formal courses, research & quality improvement projects, and various forms of self-directed learning and/or reading.  These learning events can be face-to-face, via online/virtual and/or workplace-based (On-the-Job).