Reply With Quote'Older' nurses retiring? You must be kidding me. Was just talking about a former supervisor of mine who worked until she was forced into retiring. With the economy being the way it is, and SS being as bad as it is....good luck finding a job.
There are many hot trends in nursing right now in regards to the profession’s education, training and expectations. The education trends are particularly interesting and relevant to many potential nurses thinking of entering the field as well as those currently enrolled. The nursing field is changing and evolving. Older nurses are retiring, and a new generation is training to replace them.
What will these trends in education mean for the next generation?
'Older' nurses retiring? You must be kidding me. Was just talking about a former supervisor of mine who worked until she was forced into retiring. With the economy being the way it is, and SS being as bad as it is....good luck finding a job.
Structurally, facility based nursing has followed suite and formed its own ineffective bureaucracy. There are chief nursing officers, clinical nurse educators, clinical nurse specialists, clinical nurse managers, nurse auditors, legal nurse consultants, informatics nurses, nurse researchers, blah, blah and, blah. A trend I've noticed over the years is that in order to "advance" in the profession one has to attain higher education for the purpose of moving away from direct care. Nursing is "dirty work" and "advanced" nurses move away from it for the purpose of "improving" it. All these developments, "improvements" in nursing process based on best practice, are designed (in the boardroom) and implemented from the boardroom) without consulting the real nurse expert- the bedside, clinical, dirty nurse. Consequently the job has become very labor intensive not only because the patient is sicker but because nursing process involves so much more than patient care. The new nurse who intends to stay at the bedside, has got to have an impervious skin, be able to stay focused amid chaos, have mastered multi-tasking and be possessed of excellent clinical assessment skills.
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