Nursing education trends: future implications and predictions

Nurs Clin North Am. 2012 Dec;47(4):423-34. doi: 10.1016/j.cnur.2012.07.007. Epub 2012 Sep 8.

Abstract

This article examines current trends in nursing education and proposes numerous transformations needed to ensure that programs are relevant, fully engage learners, reflect evidence-based teaching practices, and are innovative. Such program characteristics are essential if we are to graduate nurses who can practice effectively in today's complex, ambiguous, ever-changing health care environments and who are prepared to practice in and, indeed, shape tomorrow's unknown practice environments.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Education, Nursing / organization & administration
  • Education, Nursing / trends*
  • Forecasting*
  • Humans
  • Learning
  • Nursing Education Research
  • Students, Nursing / psychology
  • Teaching / methods