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    Trends and Issues in Nursing Practice

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    The document discusses trends and issues in nursing practice. It outlines that nursing trends refer to the direction of changes occurring in the field of nursing. Some key trends in nursing practice mentioned include specialization in areas like ICU and transplant units due to advances in medical technology and diagnostics. Other trends include accreditation, trauma care, staff development, use of social media, disaster management, and move to paperless records systems. The document also notes issues in nursing practice such as lack of safety/security, limited promotional opportunities, harassment, inadequate supplies, internal conflicts, poor pay, and nurse to patient ratios.

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    The document discusses trends and issues in nursing practice. It outlines that nursing trends refer to the direction of changes occurring in the field of nursing. Some key trends in nursing practice mentioned include specialization in areas like ICU and transplant units due to advances in medical technology and diagnostics. Other trends include accreditation, trauma care, staff development, use of social media, disaster management, and move to paperless records systems. The document also notes issues in nursing practice such as lack of safety/security, limited promotional opportunities, harassment, inadequate supplies, internal conflicts, poor pay, and nurse to patient ratios.

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    The document discusses trends and issues in nursing practice. It outlines that nursing trends refer to the direction of changes occurring in the field of nursing. Some key trends in nursing practice mentioned include specialization in areas like ICU and transplant units due to advances in medical technology and diagnostics. Other trends include accreditation, trauma care, staff development, use of social media, disaster management, and move to paperless records systems. The document also notes issues in nursing practice such as lack of safety/security, limited promotional opportunities, harassment, inadequate supplies, internal conflicts, poor pay, and nurse to patient ratios.

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    Trends and Issues in Nursing Practice

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    The document discusses trends and issues in nursing practice. It outlines that nursing trends refer to the direction of changes occurring in the field of nursing. Some key trends in nursing practice mentioned include specialization in areas like ICU and transplant units due to advances in medical technology and diagnostics. Other trends include accreditation, trauma care, staff development, use of social media, disaster management, and move to paperless records systems. The document also notes issues in nursing practice such as lack of safety/security, limited promotional opportunities, harassment, inadequate supplies, internal conflicts, poor pay, and nurse to patient ratios.

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    Trends and Issues in Nursing Practice

     Trends – it denote changes taken place


     Nursing trends – refers to direction towards which the different nursing events have
    moved or are moving.
     These do not occur independently but each one has a basis of related changes in other
    fields.
     Trends in nursing that is changes currently taking place in any area of nursing.

    Trends

     Medical profession is fastly changing profession.


     Trends in nursing profession are closely related to those in medical profession.
     The era of specialization & Biomedical science have far advanced resulting in newer
    diagnostic equipment such as scanner, New drugs, monitoring system in field of
    health care all over the world.
     Modern health care facility like ICU, ICCU, renal unit, organ transplant unit etc super
    specialization has come.

    Trends in Nursing Practice

     Accreditation
     Trauma care
     Medical technology
     Staff development and creation of new post
     Nursing Audit
     Implication of Laws
     Political Influence
     Social media

    Trends in Nursing Practice

     Disaster Management
     Paperless hospital and Records and reports
     Patient Bill of Rights
     Emergency care
    Issues in Nursing Practice

     Lack of security and safety .


     Less promotional opportunities
     Harassment by other personnel
     Inadequate health supplies
     Internal conflict and influence by
    others
     Disorganization
     Poor pay structures
     Nurse patient ratio
     Attitude, human approach
     Media

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