Trends in Nursing Education

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Ms.

AISWARYA JAYAPRAKASH

First year M.Sc. Nursing


Govt. College of Nursing
Thiruvananthapuram
“Nursing education is a professional education
which is consciously and systematically planned
and implemented through instruction and discipline
and aims the harmonious development of the
physical, intellectual, social, emotional, spiritual and
aesthetic powers or abilities of the student inorder to
render professional nursing care to people of all
ages in all phases of health and illness, in a variety
of setting, in the best or highest possible manner.”
 Innovations in teaching and learning
 Technological advances
 Curriculum changes
 High-tech High-touch approach
 Educational quality assurance
 New specialties
 Opportunities for higher studies
A promising career
 Global nurses
 Trans national acceptance
 Advances in nursing research
 Potential shortage of nurse educators
 Coping with impact of globalisation
 Diminished government role
 Professional Issues
 Curricular issues
 Faculty issues
 Fiscal issues
 Issues due to commercialization
 Societal issues
 Brain-drain
 Lacking quality leadership
 Need for collaborative inter disciplinary
relationship
 Absent role models
 Lack of assertiveness
 Inadequate management of quality
 Inadequate educational preparation
 Poor practical training field
 Aiming monitory benefits only
 Heavy curriculum
 Technological advances
 Poor examination system
 Lack of educational flexibility
 Improper student selection
 Substandard research
 Scarcity

 Incompetency

 Lack of updated knowledge


 Lack of faculty improvement
programmes
 Lack of good mentors
 Budgetary limitations
 Poor financial status
 Mushrooming educational institutions
 Improper student selection
 Low educational standards
 Need of geriatric nursing
 Emergence of New Diseases
 Prevent brain drain
 Updating knowledge
 Opportunities for higher education
 Select students based on merit
 Updating nursing curriculum
 Staff development and welfare

programmes
 Adequate faculty
 Avoid Mushrooming of educational
institutions
 Aptitude based selection
 Increase facilities of practical learning
 Skill training
 Publish research
 Separate nursing university
 Standardized examination system
 Membership in professional associations
 Empowering statutory bodies
Books :
 Sankara Narayan B, Sindhu B (2009),
Learning and Teaching Nursing, 3rd edition,
Calicut; Brainfill publishers :pp 2-21.
 Basavanthappa B.T. (2007), Nursing
Administration, 4th edition, New Delhi;
Jaypee Brothers :pp 532-539
 Leahy. M. Julia, Kizilay. E. Patricia (1998),
Foundations of Nursing Practice, 1st Edition,
Philadelphia; Saunders Publications : pp 4-5.
 Kozier Barbara, Erb Glenora et al (2007),
Fundamentals of Nursing, 7th edition,
Pearson Education Publishers : pp 43-44.
 Priya C. Jose, Roy K. George (2006), Nursing Education
in Kerala prospects and challenges, Kerala Nursing
Forum, Vol I, No I (Oct – Dec) pp : 45-48.
 Dileep Kumar (2007), Nurses need to Master
Sophisticated Information System and use wealth of
knowledge to improve patient care, Nursing Journal of
India, Vol XCVIII, No. 4, pp : 83 – 86.
 Latha R. (2007), Promoting Positive Practice
Environment for Nurses : - Issues and challenges,
Kerala Nursing Forum, Vol 2, No 4, (Oct – Dec), pp : 42-
43.
 http://www.nursingcentre.com

 http://www.nursingclasses.com

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