The Development Of The 21st Century

Due to innovations in technological tools and information management systems while collaborating and coordinating care with other health professionals, nurses have been called upon by the IOM committee to acquire higher levels of education to help them meet the needs of the population. The educational systems to prepare nurses for the work force today, needs to be geared towards community settings like primary care, public health, and long-term care. Nursing curricula in schools, need to be reviewed, updated, and adaptive enough in science, technology, research, and rich fundamental concepts that will enhance decision making skills, involving dynamic clinical situations in all settings to meet the ever changing needs in health care according to the IOM committee.

Nursing is a dynamic profession and life long learning is essential for nurses to stay current with the increased complexity of the healthcare needs of today and into the future. In other words, the needs of our patients are changing, as we must change in order to be prepared to better serve that need.

The image of the nursing profession is on the rise due to development in political, environmental, cultural, and social areas. This involves addition of women into the profession of nursing to instill the needed care to patients. The implementation of technology and education in relation to the nursing profession proves to be effective and efficient in the current health condition, in the nation. Education helps to prepare nurses for their roles and expectations. This allows them to execute their roles and responsibilities perfectly thus the highly trusted health professional group. Extensive research and clinical approaches also act as components to indicate the strides towards development in relation to the nursing profession. Research actions enable nurses to determine the source of their previous problems thus opportunity to revive themselves. This provides appropriate platform for development of the profession (Cherry & Jacob, 2011).

Nursing is a field that demands for an individual is willing to go beyond professional boundaries when necessary. In the present age, the nursing profession needs to compete to develop themselves and the profession to be able to gain respect and higher level of standard for the profession. Responsibility and role of nursing professionals becoming highly challenging and more refined because of the global health care is evolved rapidly thus nursing professionals have to be more accountable and indirectly involved in the process of decision making ( Holder and Schenthal 2007 ). Therefore it is very important for nurses nowadays to continue to learn in the latest health care knowledge and technology. Holder and Schenthal (2007) also described

The constant factor in the healthcare field is change! As the nursing professionals navigate the front lines of patients' care, they are typically exposed to change. As the year goes by, the nursing profession continues to change and progress at a spectacular pace. There are many current trends in the nursing profession, some of which are; the rise in the senior citizen's population, evolution of informatics, shortage of nurses and the researches on health outcomes.

As an Informatics, the speaker devotes that it I his job to ensure that patients educated with the advanced practices done by nurses. By making sure, there is the flow of information in real time. With such kind of practitioners that devote themselves to spreading information from one source to another, meaning with the rapid technological change in the healthcare system, there will be no wide gap between patients and health

The concept of specialty nursing evolve from the profession role of registered nurse as a result of changes in the healthcare demand for more knowledge focus and need for advance nursing education. Nursing profession has evolved thru out history to specialty focus area to meet this demand. Many of these specialties have resulted in, recognition, explanation and growth that had made and impact on the health care needs. For example many of these specialties has evolved with time to incorporate certification exam and graduate degree in nursing, even as of today many specialty are evolving into doctorial educated level such as DNP. Hemic discuss that as each specialty evolves it goes thru different stages that involve define it and forming organization and introducing evidence. Hemic discuss the stage of development as dynamic and at times may not mature exclusive, and some might show characteristic of more than one stage at the same time. For example there are 4 stage of development of specialty into advance practice nurse ( ). Due to healthcare need for specialty some specialty has shown to evolve differently from that of APN. Nursing informatics is a nursing specialty that has shown to evolve differently from that of an APN. There are several key difference has been found in the evolution of NI and APN. The future goals and vision in relation to trends and needs in healthcare has been shown to impact the evolution of NI.

However, as exciting as the challenge is for modern nursing, and the technological improvements that

As people’s life expectancy increases, the nursing field needs to keep pace with the rapid changes. There’s increased needs for nurses in many different field as well such as nursing home, hospitals, ambulatory cares, palliative care, and hospices. Therefore, an expectation of a role as a nurse has been rise. Nursing skills and knowledge cannot remain limited, but need to utilize in more various setting. In order to provide better care in various nursing field, continuing education is essential. For example, as population and their lifespan increases there’s also new diseases and new treatment has been developed. A competence nurse must embrace old and new skills and thorough knowledge to achieve best quality of care and optimum patient’s overall outcome. The quality of patient care heavily depends on nurses’ level of education. One research proves that nurses who received higher level of education showed lower mortality rate, less medical errors, and higher patient satisfaction. This outcome is related to higher education which prepared nurses to handle various circumstances with appropriate answers. Nurses are people who spend most of time with ill individuals at the bed side. Nursing education will provide new demanding roles of nurses’ requirement such as seeing the patient as a whole, providing appropriate response to patient’s condition, and integrating knowledge and skills accordingly.

“ There are many emerging technologies that will change the practice of nursing in the coming decade seven at its minimum that pack a powerful punch to Nurses changing over the 21st century ” ( Hutson 2 ). There's genetics and genomics technologies that are used in everyday nursing jobs by nurses as an element impacting every nursing professions since it's been created ( Calzone 2010). Though that form of technology came later to Nursing professions it's something a lot of nurses went through practices to become more competent at bringing better aid to patients and the Nursing career over all. When robotics was brung into the profession there was a new incentive to developing Nursing healthcare.“ It's provided Nursing with diagnostic abilities, more precise interventions, and adjunct care providers for physical and mental Nursing provisions ( Newell 2012 ) ”. The Electronic Healthcare Records (EHR) giving healthcare providers such as Nurses the ability to access critical patient information 24/7 providing Nurses with the best coordinated care they could give to their patients ( Newell 2012 ). The government will try all possibilities to continue technology growth for Nurses and all health care proficient for the rest of 2016 and so

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The most interesting topics of nursing informatics to me are information science and information systems. Nursing is an information-intensive profession (McGonigle & Mastrian, 2012). It involves gathering information, processing the information to provide solution to a problem. The knowledge so acquired helps to guide nursing practice in providing quality patient care. Computer science and ethical application of informatics are other topics, I found interesting in this course. In today’s era of information age, computer technology is fast taking over every aspect of business and healthcare organizations. For an organization to be at its cutting edge and operating optimally it must embrace and adopt computer technology in its operations. Nursing is not an exception

Upon considering the past and future of nursing, many changes have already taken place, and even larger changes are expected. With the recent rate of technological development, the heath care system is certain to follow in its advances at nearly the same pace. Many predictions for the future of medicine are based on computerized technology. The use of telemonitoring, video and “smart houses” are already being used by some companies today, and will be utilized more frequently in the future. This will enable one nurse to care for many more patients than he/she is capable of safely caring for currently. This is very important due to the baby-boomer generation growing older and the

The 21st century is often referred to as the digital age. Former ways of communicating ideas and communicating with each other are becoming obsolete as cyber culture takes over. For many of us the use of new technologies and social media sites have changed our way of life and has shaped how others view us on online platforms. Many view mass media and digital culture as a brilliant and successful phenomenon as it’s a product of the development of technology however to what extent is it impacting our lives and how we view the world, ourselves, and others?

21st century life is full of responsibilities. People are stressed, arrears are everywhere and we have become slaves of the modern life. Although this modern life has brought us a lot of inventions and treatments to ease our lives, we are still surfing on the surface of what is around us and have forgotten what is necessary indeed. While researchers, scientists, physicians, and surgeons have made great strides in curing disease, those who practice in our medical community have fallen behind in healing and comforting our patients. (Goldberg).