Bloom's Taxonomy

The future of nursing includes use of finding new ways to incorporate cognitive, affective, and psychomotor skills. The three domains of Bloom's taxonomy will likely be with us into generations to come. Subdivisions of the three domains include:

Cognitive: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, evaluation, receiving phenomena, responding to phenomena, valuing, organization, internalizing values.

Psychomotor: perception, set, guided response, mechanism, complex covert response, adaptation, origination.

Bloom's taxonomy has been divided into the original domain and a newer domain. The newer domain begins with creating and ends with remembering.

Further information can be found at Bloom's Taxonomy of Learning Domains,Retrieved from http://www.nwlink.com/-conclark/hrd/bloom.html

Welcome to my area of expertise and the future focus of nursing

This pictoral portrayal of my area of expertise is also reflective of the future of nursing practice by the year 2020. Although technology will continue to play a significant role in the practice of nursing, the focus of future nursing practice is predicted to be centered around the largest aging population experienced in the United States due to the baby boomer generation.

The Nursing Process

Another concept that never grows old is the nursing process which was adapted from the world of science. The future of nursing education will likely always rely upon this theory as a basis for patient focused care.

Assessment: Collection and analysis of client data is the first step to delivery of nursing care. It includes physiological datat, psychological, sociocultural, spiritual, economic, adn life-style factors.

Diagnosis: The nursing diagnosis reflects the nurse's clinical judgment in response to the client's actual or potential health conditions or needs. It is the basis for the nurse's plan of care.

Outcomes/Planning: After the assessment and diagnosis are completed and identified, the nurse sets measurable and achievable short- adn long-range goals for theis patient that might include moving from bed to chari at set time intervals, maintaining adequate nutrition by eating more frequent meals, resolving conflict through counseling, or managing pain through adequtate medication.

Implementation: Nursing care is delivered according to the plan of care and care is documented in the client record all for continuity of care.

Evaluation: The client's respose to care is continuously evaluated and the plan of care modified.

The Nursing Process. Retrieved from http://nursingworld.org/EspeciallyForYou/What-is-Nursing/Tools-You-Need/Thenursingp...

Nurse Educator Roles

Nurse educators combine theri clinical abilities with responsibilites related to

• Designing curricula
• Developing courses/progress of study
• Teaching adn guiding learners
• Evaluating learning
• Documenting the outcomes of the educatinoal process

Nurse educators also help students and practicing nruses identify their learning needs, strengths and limitations, and they select learning opportunities that will build on strengths and overcome llimitations. In addition to teaching, nurse educators who work in academic settings have responsibilities consistent with faculty in other disciplines, including:

• Advising students
• Engaging in scolarly work (research)
• Participating in professional associations
• Speaking/presenting at nursin confreences
• Contributing to the academic community through leadership roles
• Engaging in peer review
• Maintaining clinical competence
• Writing grant proposals

A growing number of nurse educators teach part-time while working in a clinical setting. THis gives them the opportunity to maintain a high degree of clinical competence while sharing their expertise with novice nurses. Nurse educators who work in practice settings assess the abilities of nurses in practice and collaborate with them and their nurse managers to design learning experiences that will continually strengthen those abilities.

Nurses for a Healthier Tomorrow, http://www.nurseource.org/nurse_educator.html

nurse educators

The role of nurse educators is potentially limitless. Most nurse educators associate themselves with schools of nursing by beginning as clinical or online instructors. The potential is there to be much more pubishing research, writing for CEUs, or providing educational services as consultants. There are a number of boards of nursing and state boards of health that also employ masters prepared nurse educators.

My interest is in writing for CEUs, particularly for state approval not frequently available online. I am in the process of putting together a CEU course addressing the impact Florence Nightengale had on the practice of nursing. I have incorporated some little known information that is not ordinarily included in most nursing programs.

How do you see the future of nurse educators affecting the future of nursing?