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Capella University
NURS-FPX6103: The Nurse Educator Role
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October, 2024
The History of Nursing Education
Nursing education is labeled as a formal and planned process to prepare courses to make the competent nurses required in the health profession. This prepares aspiring nurses with the requisite knowledge, skills, and motivation to obtain and offer efficient patient care. This assessment seeks to establish the evolution of nursing education from the early apprentice model to the current academic model (McCauley et al., 2020). It is going to stress important stages, leadership figures, and imperative changes in the development of nursing education. Moreover, using historical developments in nursing education, this evaluation will do a retrospective review of the changes that have occurred and a prospective view of the possible problems and trends that may be anticipated in the future.
Five Influences of Historical Events
Over time, change has impacted nursing and to some extent its education considerably. They have influenced the nursing curricula and educational models and changed ways in which perceptions toward the role of nursing are viewed.
Impact of the Crimean War
Nightingale provided effective nursing care during the Crimean War; she introduced the concept of formal nursing training institutions and a trained nursing workforce (McCauley et al., 2020). She fought so hard for cleanliness as well as for evidence-based practice and her dream is still relevant up to date For more on this, there is a need to research more on how the war impacted the field of nursing.
World Wars I and II
Nursing during both these world wars became more demanding, and the education of nurses, especially in the field of specialist practice, grew stronger (Ryan et al., 2022). As for these conflicts, the need for a flexible nursing education relevant to the modern processes of healthcare was underlined.
The Civil Rights Movement
This movement revealed cases of racism in nursing that I know sparked changes in nursing curriculum and practice (Aljohani, 2020). Schools of nursing adopted the policy of diversity and cultural sensitivity as they sought to become more sensitive to clients’ needs.
Technological Advances in the 21st Century
Due to enhanced technological advancement, many changes have been seen in nursing practice and learning through more telehealth, e-records, and virtual learning environments (Nichols et al., 2023). However, issues like the level of digital skills, and fair distribution of resources form some of the challenges.
COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 crisis has drawn attention to the questions of infection control, crisis management, and interprofessional collaboration (Zhao et al., 2021). Therefore, ethical decision-making in resource-scarce settings and emergency planning entered into the curriculum of nursing education during the pandemic.
Significance of Historical Influences on Nursing Education
Modern nursing education has been influenced by several historical occurrences. Issues of professional education in nursing were noted in the Crimean experience of Florence Nightingale; the experiences of both world wars pointed to the need for nurses who were well-trained in emergencies (Nyborg et al., 2022). Although People of Color have been part of the United States for centuries, the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s forced system changes including the focus on diversity in nursing programs. Nursing education has continued to evolve over recent years with the help of current and developing technologies, and the introduction of the COVID-19 pandemic, has shifted how students are trained for future health events.
Impacts of Trends on Nursing
Nursing education has become exciting and dynamic, with the growth presumed by current and emerging technologies, the changing global population, and increased knowledge derived from outbreaks and/or pandemics (Beil & Smith, 2022). These trends explain the possible future of nursing and the general educational model of training which needs flexibility and orientation for the future.
Technological Advancements in Nursing Education
Technologies such as telehealth and EHR have revolutionized the way healthcare is offered and, more specifically, the approach to training nurses. Nursing students are now expected to be conversant with these gadgets to deliver quality health care and communicate with other stakeholders in the healthcare units (Rewakowski et al., 2021). An example of high-tech teaching tools are study simulation labs, virtual child classes, and web-based material: It is important to understand that with these tools the students get to experience handling real-life cases with real-life patients especially children with limited control, in a more controlled risk-free environment.
Impact of Demographic Changes and Cultural Competency
The demographic characteristics change, for instance, the aging of the world’s population as well as increasing cultural diversity impacting on envelopment of nursing education. This causes a need to prepare students to address the continually diversifying patient population and meet the standards of culturally sensitive care (Abujaber et al., 2023). Thus, the principles of diversity that were discovered during the Civil Rights Movement still influence the curriculum of the nursing faculty (Langan et al., 2022). Students of the nursing course today must be knowledgeable and sensitive to issues of diversity so that they may dispense equal quality service to patients from diverse cultural backgrounds. This shift is not only beneficial to patients but proved to increase the quality of other services in the health sector.
Adaptability in Nursing Education Post-COVID-19
The study showed that the COVID-19 pandemic placed a focus on the level of flexibility in nursing education. During global health emergencies, nursing programs must ensure that priorities that they produce graduates who can effectively manage crises, ethical dilemmas, and resource allocation during a disaster (Woolsey & Narruhn, 2020). The development of pandemic-centered hybrid learning approaches has also been hastened, meaning that nursing education has become more adaptable for unforeseen escalations in the future. Nursing educators are now paying much attention to preparing their students to work in multi-professional environments in different healthcare settings, setting priorities on patient care, and working as members of a multidisciplinary team.
NURS FPX 6103 Assessment 1 Conclusion
The growth of nursing education shows that the profession has been through dynamic change due to social events and development including the Crimean War, the World War, the civil rights movement, and the recent technological and public health transformation (Hines et al., 2019). Such factors have influenced the nature of practice and training of nurses, including the requirement of preparing for a future healthcare environment. As nursing education progresses, the main aim is still to prepare qualified nurses with an understanding of health consumer needs in a dynamic healthcare context.
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