Nursing must adapt to changes in healthcare. Rapid advances in technology are reducing hospital stays, increasing demand for community-based care for chronic conditions. Nurses will need new roles through telemedicine and managing care at home. Demographic trends like increased lifespan also require improved elderly care and research into end of life care. Nursing shortages and budget cuts challenge these adaptations, so the profession must recognize emerging patterns and plan cost-effective services for society's changing healthcare needs.
Nursing must adapt to changes in healthcare. Rapid advances in technology are reducing hospital stays, increasing demand for community-based care for chronic conditions. Nurses will need new roles through telemedicine and managing care at home. Demographic trends like increased lifespan also require improved elderly care and research into end of life care. Nursing shortages and budget cuts challenge these adaptations, so the profession must recognize emerging patterns and plan cost-effective services for society's changing healthcare needs.
Nursing must adapt to changes in healthcare. Rapid advances in technology are reducing hospital stays, increasing demand for community-based care for chronic conditions. Nurses will need new roles through telemedicine and managing care at home. Demographic trends like increased lifespan also require improved elderly care and research into end of life care. Nursing shortages and budget cuts challenge these adaptations, so the profession must recognize emerging patterns and plan cost-effective services for society's changing healthcare needs.
Nursing must adapt to changes in healthcare. Rapid advances in technology are reducing hospital stays, increasing demand for community-based care for chronic conditions. Nurses will need new roles through telemedicine and managing care at home. Demographic trends like increased lifespan also require improved elderly care and research into end of life care. Nursing shortages and budget cuts challenge these adaptations, so the profession must recognize emerging patterns and plan cost-effective services for society's changing healthcare needs.
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FUTURISTIC NURSING
VISION FOR THE FUTURE OF NURSING
In many ways this is a time of chaos within health care systems around the world. The economic downturn in the global society has impacted on health care. In many places services have been cut and access to services reduced. In addition, new diseases such as AIDS, SARS and the threat of bio-terrorism have entered our lives. New technologies and treatments occur rapidly, but are often expensive, and financing these advances can be difficult. Patients are moved out of hospital rapidly, and those that remain are more acutely ill than they have been in the past. Those discharged patients often need more assistance at home and in the community than in previous years, and those services can also be expensive. Nurses are a vital part of the health care scene, but nursing shortages have appeared in many areas, the nursing profession needs to begin to recognize new trends and patterns that are emerging in health care. 1. Rapid changes in health care technology and therapies likely mean continued lowered acute care stays. Driving forces include increasing lysophisticated surgical technologies that are less invasive and promote quicker healing. New therapies may reduce sick time, hopefully even in areas such as cancer, HIV/AIDS and genetic disorders. However, as those technologies have prolonged the lifespan, reduced mortality has changed fatal illness into more chronic illness, which may still require care and control. The growth of telemedicine, tele-nursing, and tele-health will also change the way we function ,and have great potential and challenges for the development of new nursing roles. With lowered acute care stays, many more people will require care in their own communities. Nurses need to be better prepared to work within this area;financial issues of care provision need to be addressed and nurses need to be better prepared to work with chronic care needs. 2. Demographic trends, epidemiological trends, and health care statistics these help us recognize health care needs for society and give information for future planning of cost effective services. Increasing lifespan is a driving force for the development of improved services for the elderly. End of life care has received more attention over the last few years, but nursing research into this area needs to be further developed and findings disseminated. In many societies