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CURRICULUM AND TEACHING IN NURSING:

TRENDS IN NURSING EDUCATION

By:

Karina Megasari Winahyu

Fau!"y: Dr# Sushee$a Wihai%u!!

Mas"er &' Nursing SieneB&r&(ara)&nani C&!!ege &' Nursing N&**ara" +a)ira

Gra,ua"e Sh&&!- Kase"sar" Uni.ersi"y

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3# Fa"&rs ,ri.ing "rans'&r(ing &' "he nursing e,ua"i&n "ren, "&,ay

There are some factors that motivated the changing of nursing education. For

instance, globalization, policy or regulation, changing of society trends. Those factors

interacted each other and influenced the health care system and the nursing education as

intitution which produced future nurse. Globalization caused increasing number health

customer who have awareness of health status; high rate mobility of people overseas

effect the communicable disease around the world and the demand of skillful and

knowledgable future nurses. Another is policy or regulation that more concerned about

uality of care and cost!effectiveness intervention. The last is the changing of society

trends means such as aging!population or alteration of life style influence the demand

of complicatedness care for treating chronic illness

0# Curren" "ren,s in Nursing E,ua"i&n

The trends emerged in curriculum of nursing education. "t has influenced the

method of teaching in nursing education. "t changed from the previous that emphasized

in practical than theoretical.. "t also highlighted the active learning process to

accommodate knowledge transmission through participation of learners. #oreover,

"nstitute of #edicine $%&''( e)plained the competencies of future nurse such as patient!

centered care, evidence based practice, collaboration with other profession, e)cellence

services, safety, and information system. Affara $%&&*( emphasized also that

competency!based curriculum for e)isting practice.

Another trends is changing of level of nursing education range from diploma

until post!graduate level of education. +ursing education developed rapidly to provide

e)cellence services of healthcare. very level of education has its function and roles innursing field. -egarding Future of +ursing ducation as cited in "nstitute of #edicine

$%&''( recommended encouraging the production of ualified nurse faculty by

accelerated achelor to /octoral and 0ost!/octoral nursing program. Future +urse

ducation also set up the goal to increase the uantity of nurse with bachelor degree up

to 1& 2 to provide uality e)pectation in healthcare.

%.' U*&(ing Tren,s &' Nursing E,ua"i&n

The upcoming trends in nursing education will be focus on integrated nursing

knowledge. As 3tokowski $%&''( e)plained that upcoming nursing education should


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integrate between knowledge, clinical reasoning, and practice. There are also 4mature

nursing student5 due to the feasibility to taking higher education, they had higher

e)pectation related to formal nursing education $6eller, et. al, %&''(.

3ince the ageing population increased, means ualified and knowlegable nursing

faculty will decrease in terms of their productivity age. "t impact to shortage number of

faculty made nursing education institution should gain the new nursing faculty to meet

the needs of the number of nursing student.

Globalization nowadays reuires higher e)pectation of health provider to meet

the needs of health consumer. This day healthcare consumer becomes more aware of

their health status. +urse is challenged to enhance their knowledge to provide uality of

care. +ursing education should prepare future nurse to be knowledgable and skillful toprovide ulified care. "t also important because the ageing population trends worldwide

due to increasing number of life e)pectancy made chronic illness which need

complicatedness care for health provider.

Furthermore, nursing education also needs to involve cost!effectiveness of

nursing care in nursing curriculum. "t was caused by the change of policy and

regulation related to health or economic or both. +urses need to offer uality of care

which promote efficiency, effectiveness, and affordable for health customer.

4# A**!ia"i&n &' Tren,s in Nursing E,ua"i&n in"& Career

As nursing faculty would try to contribute to nursing education, the challenge of

nursing education trends will fulfill through enhance the knowledge by taking higher

education level. "t also can influence the outcomes of nursing education such as

improvement in curriculum to achieve the outcome, such as increase the number of

ualified new nurses that can provide uality of care to health consumers.

Further modification of curriculum should be added related to nursing education

trends, such as apply technological!based teaching methode for appropiate sub7ect that

would to achieve analyzing and synthesizing learning outcome through information

technology. Another important thing is application of competences!based curriculum


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reuired to apply in nursing education for the %'stcentury. #oreover, regeneration is

needed to change the aging population of nurse faculty. "t can fulfill by increasing the

number of new faculty; encouraging nurses to continue education; encourage the

mentorship or preceptorship for new faculty, and build lifelong learning motivation.

Re'erenes

Affara, F. A. $%&&*(. Global trends and issues in nursing education. -etrieved from

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