Chapter 16 Trends in Community-Based Nursing

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Chapter 16 Trends in Community-Based Nursing

• Presented by Sarah Covington, RN, MSN

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Trends in Community-Based Nursing

• 1 Discuss how current trends in community-based
  nursing will affect the role of the nurse in the
  future.
• Cost containment
• Advances in technology
• Advances in knowledge
• Demographic shifts

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Trends in Community-Based Nursing

• 2 Determine how market driven economic policy
  affects the delivery of nursing care.
• One third of a companys profits go to health
  care.
• Insurance company driven, not national policy
• Right vs Privilege

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Trends in Community-Based Nursing

• 3 Discuss the implications of technologic
  development on health care in general and on the
  nursing profession specifically.
• Globalization
• Tele-nursing
• Documentation
• Information access

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Trends in Community-Based Nursing

• 4 Identify trends in knowledge explosion
  related to alternative therapies, and relate the
  value of these therapies to client care.
• Pharmacogenomics
• Complementary therapies
• Alternative systems
• Mind-Body therapies
• Biologically bases therapies
• Manipulative and body based methods
• Energy therapies

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Trends in Community-Based Nursing

• 5 Outline how the shift in demographics affects
  the role of the nurse.
• Increase in people with chronic conditions
• Increasing age of population as a whole
• Increase in diversity of the population

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Trends in Community-Based Nursing

• 6 Discuss the importance of the nursing
  competency of civic responsibility.
• Control of nursing destiny/future
• Collaboration
• Seamless care
• Role of advocate

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Trends in Community-Based Nursing

• 7 Relate future trends in nursing to the
  components of community-based nursing.
• PEW competencies

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Trends in Community-Based Nursing

• 8 Develope a plan for your personal goals in
  your future in nursing in community-based care.