“The 21st Century” we approach in an accelerated way to the new millennium, some changes are already visual and some others we don’t even imagine what they are. We all have to be prepare for those changes full of opportunities but of uncertainties as well. Many changes in technology, and communications just to mention a few. The whole environment will be very different, the big challenge will be to prepare and learn to live in this new environment due to the fact that not all of us are prepare for the big step. Given this dynamic, the education system its one of those that will have a very important challenge so as the nursing field and individuals should question himself and rethink about its principles and objectives as a lifestyle and not look at it as a change, reinvent teaching methods and organizational systems it’s the key and understand the nursing-new technology concept relationship and the process of learning itself will help understand those new changes and advances in technology that will facilitate the nursing jobs. Therefore, the need to repeat again and again, over and over again, some of the innovative ideas that have achieved a certain consensus over the years, but not with the expected results. There are many emerging technologies that will change the practice of nursing in the coming decade. Our research explains more than seven of those and those are the following; genetics and genomics; less invasive and more accurate tools for diagnosis and
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
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.
Techniques and technologies in the medical field constantly evolve and change. With such a huge increase in information, there is
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 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 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.
The article at americansentinel.edu also goes into detail about the changing challenges of nurses of the future. No longer will nurses just have to be educated on the patient and the body. Now they will have this steep learning curve for technology. This is something we already see as a problem in some ways. Every hospital has a different type of IV pump, ventilator, and medication distributor. This means someone can’t just switch nursing careers without needing to learn a bunch of new
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
In nutshell, 21th century come with great change in people live and robust technology makes people life way
“ 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
Nursing practice in this era affected and facing by many societal factors challenges. Aging population, diverse demographic, increased health care cost, rapid advancement in technology and medical knowledge, global health care system, collaborative health care are some of those factors (National Advisory Council on Nurse Education and Practice [NACNEP], 2010). In order to keep pace with the rapidly changing healthcare environment, nurse educators required to evaluate and revise education curricula, approaches, and programs used to educate new and practicing nurses. According to research studies new graduates felt as they possess enough knowledge to perform well in real clinical situation.
However, as exciting as the challenge is for modern nursing, and the technological improvements that
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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
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).