Nursing Care and Nursing Education

There are about 20380000 registered nurses all over the world, there are about 30,000 professionally activated nurses in CANADA, and in Vancouver there are 3152 registered nurses regarding the statistics of 2015. There are many types of nursing like Cancer Nursing, Heart & Cardiovascular Nursing, Pediatric Nursing, Surgical Nursing, Dental Care Nursing, Clinical Nursing, Critical Care & Emergency Nursing, and Women Health Nursing.

Nursing education is ever evolving and encompasses a wide range of educational elements including physical, social, emotional, cultural, and psychological issues in nursing. While nursing curriculums provide a well versed education for their students, many programs have yet to effectively integrate the concept of international globalization into their specific curriculum. It is crucial that international globalization and its effect on the nursing profession is understood and taught in undergraduate universities. The importance of nursing globalization education has become increasingly relevant; both nursing students and faculty have already begun to explore nursing on an international level with a different outlook on nursing care.

Special health care needs include any physical, developmental, mental, sensory, behavioral, cognitive, or emotional impairment or limiting condition that requires medical management, health care intervention, and/or use of specialized services or programs. The condition may be congenital, developmental, or acquired through disease, trauma, or environmental cause and may impose limitations in performing daily self-maintenance activities or substantial limitations in a major life activity. Health care for individuals with special needs requires specialized knowledge, as well as increased awareness and attention, adaptation, and accommodative measures beyond what are considered routine.

It is important to determine the understanding of the patient and the family concerning the diagnostic tests (those completed as well as those planned), the diagnosis or potential diagnosis, the treatment options, and the prognosis. At the same time, the nurse can assess the level of anxiety experienced by the patient and the support provided and needed by the patient’s significant others.

The presence of certain characteristics in professional nursing practice environments can promote the development of professionals and favor safe practices, among them, the philosophy of quality-focused care, interdisciplinary cooperation, responsibility with professional authority, promotion of nursing leadership, support for the professional development of nurses, and the development of cooperative relationships among health workers. The facilities that possess such attributes encourage improved outcomes for patients, for the nursing staff, and for the institution itself. In turn, professionals working in negative environments are dissatisfied with their jobs more frequently report an intention to leave their jobs, and are more exposed to burnout, a condition that negatively affects professionals and impacts the characteristics of the environment and patient outcomes.

Nursing and midwifery services are a vital resource for attaining health and development targets. They form the backbone of health systems around the globe and provide a platform for efforts to tackle the diseases that cause poverty and ill-health. If we are to succeed in improving health systems performance, urgent action is needed to overcome the problems that seriously undermine the contribution these services can make to the vision of better health for all communities.

Nursing informatics is a recent specialty within nursing and as a discipline has experienced immense change in scope and definition over the past few decades. These changes are the direct result of a proliferation of crucial nursing roles in informatics and of a sustained explosion of technology in healthcare. As the discipline of NI continues to mature, its definition and the educational preparation of nurses will change in tandem to reflect this evolution.

Nurses develop substantial knowledge of the strengths and weaknesses of hospital systems and how they fail. Their ability to create workarounds to broken or dysfunctional systems is legendary in health care. As hospitals focus on increasing safety and reliability, patient centeredness and efficiency, nurses’ knowledge and commitment to their patients and institutions needs to be effectively mobilized. To accomplish this, nurses’ perspectives must be represented at the highest levels of hospital leadership and integrated into hospital decision making. In addition, consistent with process-improvement research that identifies the active involvement of front-line staff as a critical factor in making and sustaining change, processes for engaging nurses and other front-line staff also need to be expanded and institutions needs to be effectively mobilized. To accomplish this, nurses’ perspectives must be represented at the highest levels of hospital leadership and integrated into hospital decision making. In addition, consistent with process-improvement research that identifies the active involvement of front-line staff as a critical factor in making and sustaining change, processes for engaging nurses and other front-line staff also need to be expanded.

The safety of operating rooms is dependent in large measure on the professional and regulatory requirements that mandate skill levels, documentation standards, appropriate monitoring, and well-maintained equipment. Prescriptive and detailed protocols exist for almost every procedure performed, and although variation based on surgical and anesthesia preference is allowed, overall there is excellent management of the technical aspects. Experienced operating room physicians, nurses, and technicians come to rely on these operating room characteristics to support the delivery of safe care. Most practitioners, however, at some time—and some much of the time—have had the experience of working in suboptimal operating room conditions because the level of procedural complexity in even the simplest of operative procedures is not matched by the necessary team coordination, leadership engagement, or departmental perspective that encompasses all the prerequisites for reliable delivery of care.

Palliative and end of life care aim to provide holistic support to people who have any incurable or life-limiting progressive illness, to enable them to live as well as possible until they die. They include management of symptoms, and provision of psychological, social and spiritual support to the person and their friends and family. A 2013 national survey of bereaved people found that 76% of respondents rated the care that their friend or relative had received in the last three months of life as ‘good’ or better.

Continuing education is necessary for nurses to perform competently, and respond positively to advanced medical, and technological changes in this age of rapid change, and to prevent obsolescence. It is needed to meet the expressed needs or interests of nurses to enable them to provide current and ultimately safe and effective patient care. It consists of planned learning experiences beyond a basic nursing educational program. These experiences are designed to promote the development of knowledge, skills, and attitudes for the enhancement of nursing practice, thus improving health care to the public.

There was a time when the most impressive technology you could find in a hospital were pagers and pulse oximeters. Now, technology fills every corner of every hospital and impacts patients and healthcare workers alike. If you’re new to nursing and thinking of earning your Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN), the program will expose you to a variety of current technology. And, you’ll need to be prepared to embrace new technologies as they arrive.