Providing nurses with acquired knowledge and skills necessary for providing adequate safe patient care is proven key in increasing patient outcomes and improving nurse job satisfaction. Investing in nursing intellectual capital by allocating financial, human and material resources can ensure quality patient care. Nursing intellectual capital theory conceptualizes the sources of nursing knowledge available within an organization and delineates its relationship to patient and organizational outcomes (Covell, 2008). The intellectual capital theory proposes that connection exists in nursing knowledge and within the institute of the hospital. Continuing education is the key development in improving patient care, one would think that if a new
