Name: NEETHU SEBASTIAN
Section: PRE SESSIONAL ENGLISH
Essay title: Which have been the key developments in your area of study in the last 20/30 years and and which developments do you think there will be in the future?
Introduction
General statements: Nursing is the taking charge of personal health of individuals and to put the individual in the best possible state and allow nature to act upon him.(Florence nightingale(1859) cited in Meleis,(2006)Nursing is a sector of health care and nurses are providing care by using up to date knowledge and research to give highest standard of patient care. Today’s nurses are good health care professionals and they are budding their own personal knowledge base with strong …show more content…
Technology includes an array of devices, systems and software designed to reduce the amount of time nurses must spend on tasks such as tracking down equipments, locking and collaborating with other staff members and updating patient charts. Other technology serves to improve accuracy and patient safety by reducing medical errors and accessing sensitive patient record. In addition to improved accuracy, efficiency and safety, technology also allows nurses to spend more time on direct patient care. In the same manner ,patient location can also be monitored, which can help to improve response times, admitting and discharge procedure, laboratory procedures, physical therapy and environmental services This can also assist nurses in mental health or neurology wards, where patients can sometimes wander away from their rooms and other rooms or restricted areas. Many technologies as a key component to improving patient care and outcomes with features such as sensors,mobile,tablet technology and instant alerts to changes in patient status. These developments help nurses to save their time for dispense to patient care. The use of these instruments and machines enable the nurses to handle the patient and patient’s data without any …show more content…
Nurses require to be highly qualified to adapt the changes and achieve the goals. After the completion of higher secondary education students should attend a university diploma or degree and register the central council of nursing, before when they starting work.Pre-registration nurse education has adopted many guises over the past two decades. It explained as post compulsory education, which means it takes place after the compulsory education and has the purpose of providing nursing workforce that is fit for the practice and purpose. There is a shortened, two years pre registration programme for graduates who have achieved an undergraduate degree in health sector. After few years many changes occurred in nurses’ education, new standards of nursing published and new programmes were introduced. These standards helped the nurses to improve their skills, knowledge and attitudes for health care sector. Continuing education and professional development is the responsibility of each practising nurse. Constant updating knowledge and growth are essential to keep abreast of scientific and technological changes and changes within nursing profession.
Example: Higher education helps to gain more job opportunity for the nurses and it will allow affording more speciality care in to the society and hospital.