Definition
Nursing education is a professional education which is consciously and systematically planned and implemented through a discipline and aims the harmonious development of physical, intellectual, emotional, spiritual and aesthetic abilities of the student in order to render professional nursing care to individuals of any age in the most ideal way.
Current trends in nursing education are:
- Flexible curriculum: Curriculum should be competent, have a better outcome with complete student participation. It facilitates educational opportunities and overcomes barriers of distance and time.
- Innovations: Faculty of nursing should encourage and support innovations in teaching and learning, thus, it helps to improve quality of nursing.
- Quality assurance: Quality assurance is a process of monitoring and evaluation of effectiveness and efficiency of education delivering to nursing students. It is high time to develop a grading system of nursing colleges based on infrastructure, faculty profile and percentage of student grades.
- Supporting technology: Technology exerts a great influence on nursing education throughout the planning, implementing and evaluation of it.
- High-tech high-touch approach: This approach in nursing care helps the students to deliver patient care with the help of technology cum human touch.
- Specialized courses in nursing: There are many specialized courses evolved to produce specialized nurses to meet the unexpected demands of the society.
- Research: Research in nursing plays a pivotal role to target evidence-based approach in patient care, education and management too.
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