The people who are currently employed in educating nursing students should be more responsive and sensitive to the changes that occur in their field. The nursing administration should be in a position to inform the hospital administration of the resources whether human, material, support systems, etc, needed to stay ahead of the current technology. Any advancement needs to be incorporated immediately, so that the quality standards are met. This should be taken up on a priority basis by the hospital to ensure that they can stay in touch with their competitors.
Some of the trends that the nursing facility would be facing include: – • Use of new treatment techniques and processes – Newer technology and techniques would be promising shorter stay period in the hospital as the healing would be faster. Besides the nursing facility should also develop the knowledge and the skills to handle newer diseases and conditions. Today, the life span of human beings has increased. During the old age period, the chances of developing diseases are very high.
Elders would be requiring greater amount of care and the nursing facilities should be able to provide care for the needy groups. • Tele nursing is a field that is emerging in recent years. Through this technique, nursing specialists can communicate, interact and advice less experienced colleagues from other parts of the world. Nursing facilities in rural and far-flung areas can also be advised with expert knowledge. The nursing faculty should be able to advance tele nursing so that it could help benefit the patient.
• Global issues need to be considered also by the nursing facilities. The nurses should have a good amount of cross-cultural competence to handle patients belonging to other communities and ethnic groups. The world is becoming a smaller place, and people are visiting moving across the globe. The nurses should develop some amount of cultural awareness in order to provide care. Nurses should be having an idea of the various behavior, attitudes, practices, etc, of the patient.
More and more cultural encounters are advised so that in the future, the competency levels of the nurses would improve. It is preferred to have nurses belonging to a specific ethnic background in order to handle the patients that belong to the same background. A more effective framework needs to be developed to help nurses handle patients belonging to other communities and cultures. The nurses should be able to develop a ‘cross-cultural habit’ so that awareness, knowledge, skill, encounters and desires are obtained.
It may be frequently seen that nurses make a lot of mistakes whilst handling patients belonging to other communities. This may occur initially, as they are not trained in the field of cross-cultural patient management. Nursing schools should be able to expose the nursing students to a cross-cultural environment during the early years itself, to ensure that with time, they can become more and more responsive and responsible for fulfilling the needs of patients belonging to other communities (Campinha-Bacote, 2001).