TITLE:
Important Trends and Developments Influencing the Nursing Care
AUTHORS:
Annelie Thor, Patrick Siegfried
KEYWORDS:
Nursing Care, Trends, Developments, Opportunities, Challenges
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.9 No.2,
February
8,
2021
ABSTRACT: Aim: The aim of this scientific paper was to
examine important trends and developments influencing the nursing care in order to forecast future opportunities and challenges and how to deal with them in the
best possible way. Background: The
Corona-pandemic demonstrated the importance of nursing care in the entire world and had drawn attention to the issue of a well-educated and
enough nursing staff. The nursing care
will face opportunities and challenges due to current trends and developments,
which are important to examine in order to provide the best possible nursing care. Methods: To reach the above-mentioned aim, intensive research was done by using
secondary sources and surveys. Results/Findings: After a detailed analysis of the research it can be summarized that there are three
important topics influencing the nursing care: The demographical development with an increasing life expectancy leading
to an increasing amount of old people with a demand for care and decreasing birth rates leading to less working
people. Cultural transformation and diversity imply many opportunities
because the employment market can fill gaps with foreign workers and the
immigrating people can compensate the decreasing birth rates. Nevertheless, it can imply many challenges and
potential problems which need to be
solved by the society and the immigrating
people. Furthermore, the changing gender roles can lead to more men becoming a
nurse, which might have a significant impact on the shortage of nursing staff. The third important topic influencing the nursing care is technological trends which can help to decrease
physiological stress, by facilitating the nurses’ work and by taking over some
work from them. Conclusion :It can be concluded that the
trends and developments influencing the nursing care are very diverse and imply many different opportunities as well as
challenges.