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From- 
Mr. ASHOK BISHNOI 
Lecturer, JINR
Introduction:- 
 Trends:-It denote general direction & tendencies 
specially of events, of opinion. 
 Nursing trends:-refers to direction towards which the 
different nursing events have moved or are moving as 
well as the opinion in & around nursing that are found 
in & about nursing profession. 
 Trends in nursing that is changes currently taking place 
in any area of nursing which the profession as a whole. 
 These do not occur independently but each one has a 
basis of related changes in other fields.
 Social change 
 Change in other profession 
 Change in nursing profession itself in the 
country 
 Change taking place in other countries in 
nursing world.
 Nursing profession serves to meet the need of the 
society particularly the needs related to health & 
well being. 
 The changes in society will influence to bring about 
changes in nursing profession. 
1. At present, efforts are made by government of 
India to deliver the health care to the community 
especially in rural area. 
2. Overall improvement in the education of people 
with ever growing awareness about health & health 
need.
 Now women are more educated & take up jobs 
out of home to serve & earn. 
 Advancement of technology 
eg. Automatization, Industrialization, Urbanization 
 After independence, government began to make 
serious efforts to meet health need of nation by 
implementing recommendation of bhore 
committee.
Trends in nursing profession are closely related to those 
in medical profession. 
 Medical profession is fastly changing profession & The 
era of specialization & super specialization has come. 
 Morden health care facility like ICU, ICCU, Renal unit, 
Organ transplant unit etc 
 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.
There is trends in nursing profession towards 
meeting the criteria of profession. It is fast 
moving in some areas & slower in other areas. 
◦ Trends to take up education leading to bachelor’s 
degree in nursing ,master degree as well as doctoral 
degree. 
◦ Trends related to tuition fee eg. Paid stipends, free 
hiring, accommodation , food & uniform but service is 
expected from the nurse. 
◦ Trends related to changes in working condition for 
nurses.
International influence is brought about by many 
ways- 
◦ Fast growing trends to post basic dgree programmes. 
◦ INC promote sharing of ideas & common interest 
between member of national organization. 
◦ Exchange of professional literature like international 
review, Professional journals, articles etc
Issue related to nursing profession:- 
 Various issue in nursing profession may be related to 
the profession , education ,Practice,& nurses 
themselves. 
 Status in nursing in society in Health care delivery 
system. 
 Value reflect in our nursing profession 
 Quality in nursing hand in hand education & 
practiced in hand b/w nursing 
 Unique function of nursing
 Different level of nursing required in country 
 Evidenced base nursing research. 
 Expanded & extended role of nurse 
 Globalisation in the profession 
 Nursing leadership bringing change in health 
scenario according to community demand.
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