CURRENT TRENDS AND ISSUES

IN NURSING EDUCATION

PREPARED BY
RESHMA S R
MSc NURSING FIRST YEAR
P.D.HINDUJA COLLEGE OF NURSING
INTRODUCTION
TRENDS IN NURSING EDUCATION

• Trend means moving in a particular direction

• A trend in nursing education is the change
currently taking place and influencing the
profession as a whole.
IMPORTANCE OF KNOWING THE TREND

• Helps in planning nursing service

• Helps in planning nursing education
• Controlling the direction of profession
MAJOR TRENDS IN NURSING EDICATION

• Curriculum changes
• Innovation in teaching and learning
• Education quality assurance
• Reliance on technology
• Emphasize on high tech-high touch approach
• Preparation of global nurse
• Trans-national acceptance
MAJOR TRENDS IN NURSING EDICATION

• Ensuring promising career

• Emergence of new specialities
• Increasing opportunities for higher studies
• Diminishing government role
• Uniformity and standardisation
• Coping with impact of globalisation
• Enhanced status
MAJOR TRENDS IN NURSING EDUCATION

Innovation in teaching and learning

• simulation
• Evidence based practice
• Advanced clinical nursing education
• Supervised training by nurse educators and clinical
instructors
• Knowledge expansion
MAJOR TRENDS IN NURSING EDICATION

Modes of teaching
• Distance eduction
• E-learning and online education
• Inter -professional education
MAJOR TRENDS IN NURSING EDUCATION

Evaluation system
• University based education
• Innovative evaluation strategies
CURRENT ISSUES IN NURSING
EDUCATION
• Socio-demographic , cultural diversity
• Economic and political changes and global
issues
• Rapid knowledge expansion
• Patient centered care, safety, privacy
CURRENT ISSUES IN NURSING EDUCATION

• Ethics, and bioethical concerns

• Increasing shortage of nurses and faculty
• Disaster, violence, and terrorism
• Increasing personal and professional
responsibility
THANK YOU