NCS1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Master'S Degree, Preventive Healthcare, Plastic Surgery
5 Jun 2018
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WEEK 5 – CHANGING ROLES OF THE NURSE
Social, economic and political influences on nursing
• Health reforms – funding of healthcare, political, legal,
incidence/prevalence of disease, emerging health concerns,
population/demographic changes, illness patterns, technology advances
• Nursing shortages, workplace changes
• Evidence based practice, research
• Political, state of economy impacting funding and expenditure, attitudes
of patients/communities/society
• Health concern areas – obesity, PTA, ageing, drug use and mental health
• Socio-cultural-political influences – feminism raising social status,
education becoming university based
• Political powers – one nursing voice, power in knowledge, avocating
• Whistleblowing – personal obligation, responsibility and accountability
• Nursing shortage – ongoing trend for inc hospital admission, nurses
taking on inc number of roles
What is a contemporary nurse
• Someone who works in the present time, follows modern ideas
and is influenced by current social, economic and political
changes.
Influences on the contemporary nurse
SOCIAL
➢ Nursing shortages, workplace changes – nurses taking on
more, diverse roles, roles include health promotion and
prevention, education and management, referrals,
prescribing
➢ Evidence based practice and research – optimizes patient
outcomes, allocating finite resources, clinical decisions
based on proven research, nurses understand how to
research studies
➢ Emerging areas of health concerns – obesity, PTA, ageing,
drug use, mental health
➢ Chronic problems are dominant focus of health system –
complex to manage and require linkage between home,
primary health services, hospitals and nursing home care
➢ Historical – feminism raising women status, education
becoming university based giving equal standing to this
health profession
➢ Technology advances, capability in provision of care eg
organ transplant, joint replacement, infertility
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Document Summary
Week 5 changing roles of the nurse. What is a contemporary nurse: someone who works in the present time, follows modern ideas and is influenced by current social, economic and political changes. Social outcomes, allocating finite resources, clinical decisions based on proven research, nurses understand how to research studies more, diverse roles, roles include health promotion and prevention, education and management, referrals, prescribing. Nursing shortages, workplace changes nurses taking on. Evidence based practice and research optimizes patient. Emerging areas of health concerns obesity, pta, ageing, Chronic problems are dominant focus of health system . Historical feminism raising women status, education complex to manage and require linkage between home, primary health services, hospitals and nursing home care becoming university based giving equal standing to this health profession drug use, mental health. Technology advances, capability in provision of care eg organ transplant, joint replacement, infertility management, cosmetic surgery.
