jays george msc nursing

1. C U R R E N T T R E N D S A N D
I S S U E S I N N U R S I N G
E D U C AT I O N
P R E S E N T E D T O ,
M R S . P R I YA D A R S I N I J O H N
A S S O C . P R O F E S S O R
D . Y. P. C . O . N

2. INTRODUCTION
• The changes that are occurring in the social and cultural life of the
society as a result of the impact of advancements in the science
based technology are broadly described as modernisation . Since
education is a multipolar process , it is influenced by the
modernisation in different ways.
• 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 giving rise to trends . A
number of issues and controversies now face educators and
communities: social issues and ethical issues.

3. DEFINITION
• Education is the all-round drawing out of the best in child and man body ,
mind and spirit.
- Mahatma Gandhi
• 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 power or abilities of
the student in order to render professional nursing care to people of all
ages, in all phases of health and illness , in a variety of settings , in the
best or highest possible manner.

4. TRENDS IN EDUCATION
• Pedocentric : student is the focus of present day education system.
• Teacher’s role : The model of teacher as the pivotal and dominant figure
in education, presenting a variety of information to pupils has practically
disappeared.
• Activity centred
• Creative education
• More community participation
• More reliance on technology
• Increased acceptance of non formal type of education
• Restructuring traditional programmes
• Increased opportunities for higher studies

6. • Methods of appraisal
• Innovation in teaching and learning
• Educational quality assurance
• Emergence of individual as a teaching unit
• Commercialisation of education and presence of foreign
universities

8. TRENDS IN NURSING
EDUCATION
Curriculum
changes
Innovation in
teaching and
learning
Educational
quality assurance
More reliance on
technology

9. • Emphasis on high tech- high touch approach
• Preparation of global nurses
• Transnational acceptance
• Ensuring a promising career
• Emergence of new specialities
• Increased opportunities for higher studies
• Potential shortage of nurse educators

11. • Diminishing government role
• Uniformity and standardisation
• Coping with the impact of globalisation
• Enhanced student status

12. ISSUES IN EDUCATION
• Social issues
Emotional issues
Ethnic issues
Gender issues
Economic issues
Cultural issues
Girl education
• Ethical issues

13. • Discipline and security
Expression of violence have increased the culture and so has violence
in the schools.
• Race ethnicity and equality
• Mainstreaming
• Public versus private

14. CONCLUSION
• Education is a purposeful process aimed at the development of
human beings.it is concerned with directly the child in the matter of
bringing out his hidden talents.
• The changes that are occurring in the social and cultural life of the
society as result of the impact of modernisations