Current trends and issues in nursing education

Definition, Current trends, Current Issue, Nursing education

1. CURRENT TRENDS AND ISSUES IN NURSING EDUCATION Prepared by Dr. javed Prof. Hod ( chn )

2. INTRODUCTION : The changes that are occurring in the social and cultural life of the society as a result of the impact of advancement in the science based technology are broadly described as modernization . Since education is multi-polar process, it is influenced by modernization in different ways. Due to globalization and liberalization changes occurring in other parts of the world will also influence the education pattern of a country. Even though certain aspects in the new trends are painful to those who view education as a Nobel process, they are Irresistible in the current context.

3. DEFINITION : Nursing education is a professional education which is consciously and systematically planned and implemented through instruction and discipline and aims harmonious development of the physical, emotional, spiritual, intellectual, social and static powers or abilities of the student in order to render professional nursing care to people of all age, in all phases of health and illness in a variety of settings in the best or highest possible manner.

4. TREND IN NURSING EDUCATION A profession is a dynamic integration of various faculties of knowledge. Since nursing education is a professional education, it is dynamic by its own nature and thereby given rise to trends. There are some of the current trends in nursing education .

5. CURRICULUM CHANGES INNOVATION IN TEACHING AND LEARNING EDUCATIONAL QUALITY ASSURANCE MORE RELIANCE ON TECHNOLOGY EMPHASIS ON HIGH TECH HIGH TOUCH APPROACH PREPARATION OF GLOBAL NURSES TRANSNATIONAL ACCEPTANCE EMERGENCE OF NEW SPECALITES INCEREASED OPPORTUNITIES FOR HIGHER STUDIES REFERENCE TO SHORT TERM CLINICAL PROGRAM ENSURING APROMISE CARRIER POTENTIAL SHORTAGE OF NURSING EDUCATOR DIMINISHING GOVERNMENT RULE UNIFORMITY AND STANDARDIZATION

6. 1. CURRICULUM CHANGES :- Flexible curriculum design are evolving to facilitate diversity of educational opportunity and overcome barriers of distance and time. These curricular are often competence based, focused on outcome and impressive student participation and responsibilities for nursing.

7. 2. INNOVATION IN TEACHING AND LEARNING : In nursing education, lot of innovation is taking place in the areas of teaching and learning. Invariably, these innovations lead to the intellectual development, personal development and career development.

8. 3. EDUCATIONAL QUALITY ASSURANCE:- It is a process for monitoring and evaluating efficiency and effectiveness of educational provision and to institute remedial measure as and when needed. In India, nursing education is flourishing in an unpredicted manner; naturally this will lead to dilution in the quality of nursing education in the absence of proper quality control measures. Motivated by this situation, accrediting bodies and nurse educator are expressing deep concern regarding the quality of nursing education. It is high time to prepare a quality index of nursing institution all over the country by categorizing them into different grades based on the infrastructure and faculty profile.

9. 4. MORE RELIANCE ON TECHNOLOGY :- Technology exerts greater influence on nursing education as tool for teaching and learning. Judicious use of educational psychology in the development and practice of educational technology has increased it uses friendly nature considerably.

10. 5. EMPHASIS ON HIGH TECH HIGH TOUCH APPROACH:- In nursing this care devised to preserve human components of nursing care without undermining the advantages of technological advancement in the field of patient care. Present day nursing education in preparing the students to maintain the human elements of nursing while caring the patients with the help of sophisticated gadgets.

11. 6. PREPARATION OF GLOBAL NURSES :- Nursing education is all said to grape benefits created by globalization and liberalization by way of preparing students with a global perspective pro providing learning experience to enrich student knowledge in English along with the attainment of other object.

12. 7. TRANSNATIONAL ACCEPTANCE : - Nursing educational programme in one nation is widely accepted by other nations. In fact, this transnational acceptance is the main reason for the development of nursing education in the countries like India.

13. 8. EMERGENCE OF NEW SPECALITES:- In additional with the developments in the medical and allied fields, nursing education is also offering new specialties to meet the needs of the community.

14. 9. INCEREASED OPPORTUNITIES FOR HIGHER STUDIES:- Different from the past many institution are offering programs such as post certificate, B.Sc. Nursing, M.Sc. Nursing , M.Phil , PhD. An eligible candidate can easily pursue higher education without much time lag.

15. 10. REFERENCE TO SHORT TERM CLINICAL PROGRAM:- Many graduation causes prefer short term clinical program for 6 month to 1 year duration like critical Care Nursing etc then other post graduation program were deciding to go for higher studies. This is mainly due to better carrier opportunities prevailing in the services sectors when compared with the educational side. 2 year mandatory experience after completing B.Sc. nursing for getting M.Sc. nursing education also contributed to these trends.

16. 11. ENSURING APROMISE CARRIER :- Unlike many other professional educational programs, nursing education ensures a promising carrier either in India or abroad. Study conducted by Johnson and Johnson revealed that nursing education will maintain this status at least for the coming 20 years.

17. 12. POTENTIAL SHORTAGE OF NURSING EDUCATOR : - As a result of existing carrier opportunities in the service sector when compared to the educational side, talented nurses are now acting carrier in the services side for better prospectus. This may lead to the shortage of nurse educator in the near future, since the percentage of talented nurses in the service sector will do a lot in the uplifting the public image of our professionals it is not wise to prevent this floor. Allowing the qualified nurse from the nurses from service to work in teaching institution on part time basis will help to solve this problem to the certain extent.

18. 13. DIMINISHING GOVERNMENT RULE :- Shortage of funds coupled with certain policy decisions has prevented the government from investing in the fields of nursing education. Now the private sector in playing a dominant role for the development of nursing education.

19. 14. UNIFORMITY AND STANDARDIZATION :- Various universities and nursing boards are conducting nursing programs in a different manner, even though efforts are on the way to bring about the much needed uniformity and standardization but nothing significant has occurred so far.

20. Education is a purposeful process aimed at the development of human beings. It is concerned with the directing the child in the matter of bringing out his hidden talents. Educative process in the best considered as a multicolor process. Components are knowledge application of skills, understanding comprehension, expression, appreciation, teaching, learning, initiation, instruction and training. Education is the planned activity and based on objectives and its process is influenced by the society, social changes and technological advancement

21. CONCLUSION :- Nursing education meant to prepare the professional nurses, It enjoy a rich tradition .Gold mark report in 1923 contributed considerably to the development of nursing education and it aims and trends give basis for strong development of nursing education .

22. BIBLIOGRAPHY :- SHANKAR NARAYAN BINU “LEARNING AND TEACHING IN NURSING” FIRST EDITION BRAIN HILLS PUBLISHERS PAGE NUMBER 16 TO 24. KP NEERJA “ TEXTBOOK OF NURSING EDUCATION 1 ST EDITION JAYPEE PUBLISHERS PAGE NUMBER 9-11