This document discusses trends and challenges in nursing education. It notes changing demographics like increasing populations and chronic illnesses. Nursing education must adapt, with more flexible delivery, competency-based curriculums, and use of technology. There are also challenges like lack of qualified faculty, infrastructure issues, and competition for clinical placements. Suggested actions include student-centered learning, technology integration, innovative teaching, and preparing students for future complex care needs through interprofessional education and focus on evidence-based practice.

1. Soumya Ranjan Parida

2. Education is not preparation for life, education is
life itself
-John Dewey
The millenium has become the metaphor for
extraordinary challenges and opportunities available
to the nursing profession and to those academic
institutions responsible for preparing the next
generation of nurses.
Signal change is all around us, defining not only
what we teach but also how we teach our students.

3. •Changing Demographic profile
• increasing population
•Increasing life expectancy
•Increasing psychiatric problems
•Chronic illness
•Urbanization

4. Student Evaluations of Teachers and Courses: Time to Wake
Up and Shake Up

8. Socio-demographic ,
cultural, economic,
and political influences
on health care,
education, community.

9. Increasing professional and
personal responsibility and
accountability and required
continuing competency

10. Diversity, flexibility in delivering
Education
changing methods of learning and
assessment of competence of practice
Cost of health care & challenges of
managed care

11. •Emerging diseases
•Growing Education for need of
interdisciplinary collaborative practice

12. •Necessity for documentary practice
•evidence based practice

13. Trends In Nursing Education
•Mushrooming of nursing colleges
•Change in entry level
•Use of modern teaching technology
•Pitfall in infrastructure
•Clinical facilities
•Lab facilities
•Teaching facilities

14. •Students from rising family entered nursing
•Teaching-learning activities changed from
teacher centered to student centered
•Expectation of student increased
•cost of education increased
•Increased no of enrollment
•Heightened interest in post graduated studies
& Phd program
•Increased demand for more advanced
education preparation

15. •More flexible education systems
•Allow easily diploma to degree
•Have different entry points-
Full time, part time
•Competency based curriculum-
Environmental Studies, Research, Spoken
English , Personality Development, BMW,
Disaster Management, Management of
emerging diseases & community based care

16. Perspectives in nursing education
Promoting self directed/active
learning
•More creative and interactive model
of care
• problem/case based care
•Project work
•Role play
•Changed Clinical portfolios

17. •Integration of educational
Technology and use of distance
Learning-email, electronic
Presentation ,online conferencing,
CAI, Simulation
•Life long learning-Higher learn-
Ing, in service education, FDP

18. STUDENT RETENTION PROGRAMME
 LOAN FACILITY
 Internship with stipend
 placement
proctorial/Mentoring system

19. STRONG FEEDBACK SYSTEM FOR FACULTY
Students feed back
Peer group evaluation
Research work & publication

20. Faculty Shortage as per nos of institutions
Lack of qualified, experienced & skilled faculty
Lack of job satisfaction
Salary issue
Job security

21. •Increased competition for clinical utilisation
Many institution affiliated to one hospital
•Migration to foreign countries

22. •Expansion in job opportunity
-IT company,Biotech,insurance company,
BPO call center
•Young Nurses in leadership role/in administration
•Educational opportunity in own place
•Meeting the demand of students in class room & clinical
•Good infrastructure,labs,library,
•modern teaching technology,E-learning,Virtual class
room teaching
•Issue of skilled &experienced faculty, equipped
hospital,the Supervised experience
•Issues of existence
In the competetive world institutions have to struggle to
survive on basis of quality education

23. •Promote critical thinking and clinical decision making among
students
•New graduates do not meet their expectation for clinical
judgement as identified by employment
•Accreditation agencies challenges educators to promote critical
Thinking(Long,2004)
• Teaching practices need to be evidence based
• Required partnership and collaboration with other Health Care &
Research Agencies

24. •Faculty need change in skill set as per EBP& newer
technology.
•Challenges in preparing nurses to work in
Remote areas, medically under served area,school
health and tele health.
•Preparing students for future practice for complex
specialised care technology.

25. Providing the students a broad & integrated knowledge
base

26. •Nursing schools require faculty who is expert in
nursing education and posses the knowledge to
prepare students to practice in advanced care setting.
•Faculty student ratio to increase
•Payment is lower than counterpart of same level of
education
•Accomodation for faculty & students-less as per
enrollment

27. •Call for reform
Re-examination of curricular structures & processes
New Pedagogies
preparing tomorrows leader
Caring curriculum
Outcome based curriculum
students competencies & evidence based
education required for accreditation
Diversity in education
Education about chronic diseases, gerontology
Learning foreign language

28. •Preparing new kind of nurse
Expotential growth of knowledge
explosion of technology
Fueled by changes in the nursing practice
environment
Meeting need of aging population with chronic
illness
Decrease length of stay
Increasing complexity & acuity
Encourage to practice with evidence

29. MEETING THE CHALLENGES & OPTION FOR
ACTION
•Student centered learning
•Technology savvy education
•Innovative& creative learning
•Providing real world experience & example
•Student exchange program
•Include strategies for critical thinking & clinical judgement skill
•Learning more of hospice care
•Inter professional team & collaborative care
•Orient curriculum to national priority health problems

30. Changing Faculty profile
•Upgrade quality of faculty
-academic qualification
-clinical competencies
-enhance research skill
•Filling faculty position & increasing nos of instructors
•Faculty Development program,Faculty exchange program
•Faculty mentorship
•Improve incentives and awards

31. Emerging perspectives:
.Skill test based registration
.Virtual class room learning
•E learning
•Attendance
•Students funded project
•Students to meet the global issues:disaster,global
warming, waste management,psychosocial health,
•Preparing students to meet emerging global health
threats
Bioterrorism
SARS epidemic
• Swine flu,Dengu,Ebolla,Nepa

32. For faculty
•eligibility
•NRTS
•Salary disparity
•Performance appraisal
•Accreditation
•Student mentoring
• Research publication in index journal and
plagiarism
•Qualitative research
•Emphasizes student, s values development,
socialization to the new role, commitment to
life long learning, & creativity