Aims of nursing education

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 people of all ages in the best possible manner.

Aims of nursing education

• Aims the harmonious development of physical, intellectual, emotional, spiritual and aesthetic abilities of the student in order to render professional nursing care
• Helping a student to lead a successful professional and personal life
• Inculcating right attitude towards nursing care 
• Instilling technology based knowledge and skills to provide patient care
• Emphasis on high tech high touch approach, motivating the students to give human care with technology
• Prepare the students to lead a pro active role in society
• Helps the students to go for higher studies
• Helps the students to build a career at the international level
• Helps the student to become a useful member of the society
• Motivates the student to work for welfare of the society
• Prepares nurses for meeting the global demands 

Current trends in education

Current trends in education
Advancements in technology creates a big impact on the process of education. It affects the  development of curriculum and its implementation. Teachers have a great role to change their methods of teaching, based on the needs of the society.
Major trends are:

• focusing on development of the students
• teacher helps them to grow according to his/her abilities
• interested in the overall development of the child
• creating a participatory approach in the teaching methods between student and teacher
• not focusing on spoon feeding method of education
• based on activity centered
• focusing on learning by doing
• based on developing goals to be achieved rather than learning lessons
• focusing more on research
• teacher acts as a motivator to children to do experiments
• preparing the children to search the truth
• supporting creativity
• helping students to solve problems with community participation
• preferring technology based education
• preferring non formal education along with formal education
• focusing more on inventions
• ensuring quality assurance by keeping benchmarks of education
• conducting classes using various technology based A.V.Aids like PPTs, OHPs.
• emergence of foreign universities by offering job oriented higher studies to Indian students

Aims and functions of education

Aims and functions of education

Aims of education is mainly concerned with direction rather than speed. It stands for the goals and objectives to be achieved. Factors influencing education are philosophy of life, nature, religion, politics, socio economic status, culture and technology. It has to focus on nurturing curiosity, enhancing creativity, development of proper attitudes and cultivation of skills. 

Aims of education mainly are:

• Utilitarian aim: A child should be able to utilize the knowledge in day to day life. Knowledge should be practical oriented, not theory oriented. The child should be motivated to think and answer what, why, how and when during the education process.
• Vocational aim: Education should help the child to earn livelihood so that he can lead a productive life in the society. Standard of the job has to be enhanced through means of education.
• Social aim: Education helps the child to go with the needs of society. It assists the child to become a useful member of the society irrespective of socio economic status.Education helps in the formation of social norms and molds the child to follow them peacefully. It teaches the child about moral ways and helps him/her to take decisions in the right way.
• Intellectual aim: Education enhances the intellectual capacity of the child by teaching the principles of life with evidences.
• Citizenship:Education motivates the child to perform his/her own duties and responsibilities as a citizen, for the welfare of the society.
• Physical health and well being: Education teaches the child about different ways of healthy life and helping to develop a positive attitude towards health and well being.
• Character development: It helps to inculcate human values, attitudes and habits which are essential for building a desirable character.
• Cultural development: It helps the child to acquire in depth knowledge on culture, thus, develop respect towards various cultures of the society.
• Education as entertainment: Education should not be a boring subject in child's life. It must entertain his/her life.
• Self respect: Education helps the child to look on himself/herself and would develop respect towards them. It acts as a key for them to lead a happy social life.
• Emotional maturity: It helps the child to acquire control on emotional behavior, thus leading a productive life in the society.
• Independent life: It helps the child to have an overall development includes positive personality, good character, sound knowledge and skills.

Functions of education

1. Helps the child to distinguish between right and wrong
2. Helps to grow as a citizen by respecting the laws
3. Helps to develop social skills
4. Helps to transfer cultural heritage to future generations
5. Helps to reform positive attitudes towards the society  
6. Helps the child to meet the needs of the society
7. Gives a status in the society
8. Encourages a healthy spirit of competition
9. Trains and molds the skills of the child
10. Helps the child to meet duties and responsibilities

Education as a process

Education as a process

Education is a process of gaining knowledge, acquiring and implementing skills and attitudes to lead a productive life in the society. Success of the education depends on way of training of a child in school, home and society. It is hoped that a teacher can mold the potentials of the child to the best through the best educative process. Educative process can be divided into four: bipolar, tripolar, multipolar and moreover, lifelong process.

• Bipolar process

According to this view, education consists of two persons; teacher and student. Here, teacher imparts knowledge and student acquires it. There should be cooperation and better understanding between them. Teacher should know the level of a student and student should have interest to learn with teacher.

• Tripolar process

Education is the process of an interaction of teacher, student and society or social environment. It is necessary to consider societal changes in education. A teacher should update the technological changes, revise the curriculum accordingly to develop the students as productive and useful persons to the society.

• Multipolar process

The new concept of education is influenced by teacher, student, social environment and other several factors. The education is more flexible than past, student centered and highly depends on technology. The student can access knowledge through any modes including e-learning. However, no one could explain precisely on type of factors influenced on education. It ranges from past experiences to upcoming technologies.

• Lifelong process

Education is the process of training a man throughout life and doesn't have an end. Education, at present, aims at continuous, but changing process to achieve broader goals of society.
Characteristics of educative process

• Knowledge embedded
• Based on application of skills
• Needs revision of curriculum  based on needs and demands of society
• Purpose oriented
• Planned activity

Social burden of alcoholism among the wives of alcoholics in tribal area

Social burden of alcoholism among the wives of alcoholics in tribal area

Published in TNNMC Journal of community Health Nursing

ABSTRACT

The paper explores the social burden among wives of alcoholics in a tribal area, Tamil Nadu, India. A qualitative approach using cross sectional phenomological design was selected.Three focus groups were conducted on consecutive days of the same week with 10, 8 and 10 participants.The analysis of the focus group discussion was done by coding the key words and grouping them under various themes and sub themes. The results showed that alcohol is a social burden in families and communities. It is reported that young age, lack of proper education, child labor, peer pressure, family history and accessibility of the alcohol are the contributing factors of the alcoholism. It is showed that financial problems, not able to educate their children, loss of peace in the family and women harassment are the effects of alcoholism on family. The participants suggested preventive measures for reducing social burden on alcoholism are banning child labor, proper education, enforcing strict laws and closing of alcohol shops.
Key words: Social burden, alcoholism, burden on wives of alcoholics and alcoholism in tribal area
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Assessment of occupational safety, hazards and related health problems among quarry workers at work places in India

Assessment of occupational safety, hazards and related health problems among quarry workers at work places in India

Published in International Journal of Nursing Education and Research

ABSTRACT

Introduction: As quarry site is the dangerous place to work in and quarry workers are more likely to be killed in accidents at any time. Therefore, the investigators tried to assess the occupational safety, hazards and related health problems among the quarry workers at work places in India.

Methodology: A cross sectional survey approach was used. The study was conducted in two quarry work sites in Vellore district. The study population consisted of all 72 quarry workers, who worked in the two quarry sites and the investigators selected the subjects by using convenient sampling method. The check list consisted of demographic data and 30 items, which covers the dimensions of occupational safety, hazards and  related health problems among the quarry workers. Data collection was done for a period of two weeks. 

Results: It was showed that the majority of the quarry workers 52.8% were between the age group of 18-45 years. Among them, 76.3%  of the quarry workers were males and 23.7% of them were females. It was observed that none of them were using any of the personal protective equipments, fist aid boxes were not available and there was no ambulance facility available with in 10 kms of diameter. The quarry workers were not covered under any health insurance schemes and were not trained for quarry work such as machine operation, first aid treatment and safety measures. The majority of the workers had frequent respiratory tract infection(88.8%), back ache (65.2%), joint pain (48.8%) and sinusitis (26.3%). Regarding vision and hearing acuity, 12.5% of them had reduced visual acuity and 15.3% of them had negative Weber and Rinne test too.

Conclusion: The study results make an urgent call on authority for job redesigning, scheduling policies, implementation of strict rules and regulations, health protection programmes and insurance schemes for workers who are involved in dangerous work places such as construction sites, quarry, mining and nuclear power plants.

Key words: Quarry, Occupational hazards, Occupational safety, Occupational problems 

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Development and assessment of Adolescent Boys Stress Questionnaire (ABSQ-2015)

Development and assessment of Adolescent Boys Stress Questionnaire (ABSQ-2015)

Published in ICCR-JNR Journal

Abstract:

Aim-The study aim was to develop and assess an instrument to measure stress level among adolescent boys in relation to school, family, personal and social life.

Methods-Before administering the ABSQ-2015 to adolescent boys (N=380), experts from nursing and psychology in research, practice, tool development reviewed it twice, known as two step validation process. Reliability, construct validity assessment such as content, face, contrasting groups and exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was done. Out of 26 items, 16 items were selected and loaded as three factors after EFA, deemed to be interpretable and meaningful.

Results-The assessment of ABSQ-2015 supported construct validity (0.93), reliability (0.97) and Factor analysis KMO and Bartlett's Test 0.82 (P<0.01) which is highly significant.

Conclusion-The ABSQ-2015 is found to useful psychologically and statistically to elicit the stress level among adolescent boys effectively in relation to various determinants of life.

Keywords – Adolescence, adolescent boys, Research instrument, Standardized tool, Stress questionnaire, developing tool
  

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