Future of nursing education: Changing values, educational paradigm and learner-educator profiles and roles
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Changing values, and educational paradigm, market-driven economic policy, dramatic technology developments, changing learner-educator profiles and roles and the knowledge explosion are rapidly changing health care and educational institutions as well as creating a climate of continuous rapid change. The future of nursing education, to improve and promote the nursing profession, nurses should practice to the full extent of their education and training, they should achieve higher levels of education and training through an improved education system that promotes seamless academic progression, they should be full partners with healthcare professionals, and effective workforce planning and policy making require better data collection and an improved information infrastructure. A broad search without time limitations was performed in the databases EBSCO, CINAHL, Medline, PubMed, DynaMed and ERIC.As a conclusion, there is required for a change in nursing education and in the learning environment in order to prepare the nurse of the future in a changing health care delivery system with increasing complexity.
Keywords: Nursing education, paradigm in nursing education, learner centered approach, future of nursing education.
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