This document discusses trends and issues in nursing that nurses need to study. It defines trends as general directions or movements, especially of events and opinions related to nursing. Issues are important topics or problems for discussion. Some key trends and issues identified include the nursing shortage, patient satisfaction, managed care, evidence-based practice, aging population, genetics, globalization of health, and legal/ethical concerns like terrorism or bioterrorism. The document provides details on several of these topics and their implications for nursing practice, education, and research.
Ethical issues in psychological researchMedhaDebnath
Ethical Issues In Psychological Research
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Ethical issues in psychological researchMedhaDebnath
Ethical Issues In Psychological Research
PRESENTED BY: Medha Debnath
APPLICATION NO: 1ac820aee58c11e9857d4723808534dd
AFFILIATION: BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY
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This is one of the lectures for the POGS Research Forum in Bacolod, mostly based on the chapter on Clinical Practice Guidelines for Ethics Review from the POGS Research Handbook: The Essentials. I hope this can be a guide for residents who are preparing their research proposal for ethical review.
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Health care delivery and clinical systems
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Ethical considerations in health care
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Population health concerns
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The role of technology in improving health care outcomes
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Health policy
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Leadership and economic models
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Health disparities
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INTRODUCTION- Nursing has been called the oldest of the art, and the youngest of the profession. As such, it has gone through many stages and has been an integral part of social movements. Nursing has been involved in in the existing culture, shaped by it and yet beeping to develop it. The trend analysis and future scenarios provide a basis for sound decision making through mapping of possible futures and aiming to create preferred futures.
The world health organization (who) has been considering the future and predicts that by 2000 the world experiences:
Major growth in the elderly population
Decline in birth rate, especially in western counteries
Increase in chronic illness
Continuing social unrest
AIDS a major problem
Many infectious diseases under control
Mental health a key issue
Poverty continuing to plague mach of the world
TRENDS IN NURSING: Education changes due to changes in demographics
2. Embracing of technology
3. Advancements in communication and technology
4. Working with more educated consumers
5. Increasing complexity of patient care
. Increased cost of health care
7. Changes in federal and state regulation
8. Interdisciplinary skills
9. Nurses working beyond retirement age
10. Advances in nursing and science research.
TRANSITIONS TAKING PLACE IN HEALTH CARE: Curative - Preventive approach
Specialized care - Primary health care
Medical diagnosis - Patient emphasis
Discipline stovepipes - Programme stovepipes
Professional identity - Team identity
Trial and error - Evidence based practice
Self – regulation - Questioning of professions
Focus on quality - Focus on costs
IN THE WORKPLACE: High tech - Humanistic
Competition - Cooperation
Need to supervise - Caching, mentoring
Hierarchies - Decentralized approach
IN NURSING: Continued competencies - Competencies a condition
Hospital environment - Community environment
Quality as excellence - Quality as safe
Clear role - Blurring roles
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4. What do you mean by trends?
What do you mean by Issues ?
What are the Areas of Trends
and Issues, Nurses Need to
study
5. Nursing has been called the oldest of
the art, and the youngest of the
profession. The trend analysis and
future scenarios (develoment of
events) provide a basis for sound
decision making through mapping of
possible futures and aiming to create
preferred futures.
6. Issues: An important topic or
problem for discussion.
Trends:-It denote change or
movement , general direction &
tendencies specially of events,
of opinion.
7. Nursing trends:-refers to
direction towards which then
different nursing events have
moved or are moving as well as
the opinion in & around
nursing that are found & about
nursing profession.
8.
9.
10. Nursing Shortage
Patient Satisfaction
Managed Care
Transcultural Nursing
National Patient Safety
Initiatives.
Evidence-Based Practice
11. Information Age
Genetics
Globalization of Health
Aging Population
Legal & Ethical Issues
Terrorism/Bioterrorism/Disaster
Nursing.
12. National problem which is
growing
Critical shortage in specialty
areas
Avg age of nurse is 45
Resurgence of enticements
for recruitment(temporary
basis recruitment)
13. Work environment
Recruitment
Retention
Aging workforce
Compensation
Shortage of nursing faculty
14. Press ganey Surveys(pt.
Survey)
Good customer Service
Patient Bill of Rights
Treat patients like Family
Health care is a business
15. Goal is to keep length of stay (LOS)
Patients are discharged sooner
Patient acuity(sharpness of thought)
higher
Health Care Plans
Case manager work closely with
Physicians and insurance companies
16. Nursing has become a
melting pot
Nurses are challenged to be
more culturally aware
Cultural sensitivity
17. Joint Commission National
Patient Safety Goals
Institute for Healthcare
Improvement “5 Million Lives”
Campaign
The Leapfrog Group
18. Improve the accuracy of patient identification
Improve the effectiveness of communication among
caregivers
Improve the safety of using medications
Reduce the risk of health care-associated infections
Accurately and completely reconcile(awareness)
medications
Reduce the risk of patient harm from falls
19. Encourage patients’ active involvement in
their own care as a patient safety strategy
The organization identifies safety risks
inherent in its population.
Improve recognition and responses to
changes in a patient’s condition.
20. Reduce preventable medical mistakes
and improve the quality and
affordability of health care
Encourage health providers to
publicly report their quality outcomes
so consumers can make informed
choices
21. To extend rapid response teams
Deliver reliable evidence-based care for
acute MI
Prevent adverse drug events
Prevent central line infections
Prevent surgical-site infections
Prevent ventilator-associated
pneumonia
22. Goal is to achieve cost-effective, high quality
patient care based on scientific inquiry
Nurses need to understand research process
involved
Nursing care should not be based on
opinions, past practices, but on the results of
scientific research
Clinical journals
Practice guidelines
Nursing research
23. Consumers today are more computer
savvy(sharpness) regarding healthcare
More info on internet
Consumers could possibly be more
informed than health care worker
Joint Commission 2014 all medical
records have to be EMR(electronic
medical record)
24. Many major developments in
the field of genetic research
Stem Cell
Human Genome Project
Cloning
Legal & Ethical issues
25. Healthcare has become a global
issue
People are mobile, diseases can
travel
Nurses need to have an
understanding of the issues
pertaining to global health
26. Statutory law: Nurse Practice Acts
Regulatory law/Administrative law
Common law
Criminal law: felony(serious crime)
& misdemeanour(break rule)
Civil law: negligence & malpractice
27. Population is aging
Growing concerns regarding the
unique needs of the elderly
Gerontological nursing
28. The 9-11 terrorist attacks have
heightened attention to the
growing threats of terrorism
Nurses need to be aware to the
health consequences of terrorism
and use of biological agents
