From-

Mr. ASHOK BISHNOI

Lecturer, JINR

Trends:-It denote general direction & tendencies specially of events, of opinion.

Nursing trends:-refers to direction towards which the different nursing events have moved or are moving as well as the opinion in & around nursing that are found in & about nursing profession.

Trends in nursing that is changes currently taking place in any area of nursing which the profession as a whole.

These do not occur independently but each one has a basis of related changes in other fields.

Introduction:-

Social change

Change in other profession

Change in nursing profession itself in the country

Change taking place in other countries in nursing world.

Nursing profession serves to meet the need of the society particularly the needs related to health & well being.

The changes in society will influence to bring about changes in nursing profession.

1. At present, efforts are made by government of India to deliver the health care to the community especially in rural area.

2. Overall improvement in the education of people with ever growing awareness about health & health need.

Now women are more educated & take up jobs out of home to serve & earn.

Advancement of technologyeg. Automatization, Industrialization, Urbanization

After independence, government began to make serious efforts to meet health need of nation by implementing recommendation of bhorecommittee.

Trends in nursing profession are closely related to those in medical profession.

Medical profession is fastly changing profession & The era of specialization & super specialization has come.

Morden health care facility like ICU, ICCU, Renal unit, Organ transplant unit etc

Biomedical science have far advanced resulting in newer diagnostic equipment such as scanner, New drugs, monitoring system in field of health care all over the world.

There is trends in nursing profession towards meeting the criteria of profession. It is fast moving in some areas & slower in other areas.

◦ Trends to take up education leading to bachelor’s degree in nursing ,master degree as well as doctoral degree.

◦ Trends related to tuition fee eg. Paid stipends, free hiring, accommodation , food & uniform but service is expected from the nurse.

◦ Trends related to changes in working condition for nurses.

International influence is brought about by many ways-

◦ Fast growing trends to post basic dgree programmes.

◦ INC promote sharing of ideas & common interest between member of national organization.

◦ Exchange of professional literature like international review, Professional journals, articles etc

Various issue in nursing profession may be related to the profession , education ,Practice,& nurses themselves.

Status in nursing in society in Health care delivery system.

Value reflect in our nursing profession

Quality in nursing hand in hand education & practiced in hand b/w nursing

Unique function of nursing

Issue related to nursing profession:-

Different level of nursing required in country

Evidenced base nursing research.

Expanded & extended role of nurse

Globalisation in the profession

Nursing leadership bringing change in health scenario according to community demand.