futuristic direction of nursing

1. Futuristic
Nursing
Dr. Dinesh Selvam S.PhD (N)
Dean of Studies – Medical and Paramedical
Sciences,
Dr.Mohan’s Diabetes Education Academy
Chennai.

2. Futuristic Nursing - Meaning
(INNOVATIVE/
REVOLUTIONARY)
Innovation is the action of
introducing a new method ,
idea or product.
It is time for nursing to
question and redefine
its role within system
and take steps to bring
about the future that
the nursing profession
is to achieve.

3. Aspects of Futuristic Nursing
It includes three broader areas:-
Practice (nursing care)
Research
Education

4. PRACTICE (NURSING CARE)
 The advanced practice nurse [APN] is an umbrella
term for the registered nurse who has met advanced
education and clinical practice requirements. This
covers four principle types of APN’s. They are:-
1. Clinical Nurse Specialist
2. Nurse Practitioner
3. Certified Nurse Midwife(C.N.M)
4. Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (C.R.N.A)

5. AREAS
FOR
FUTURE
NURSING
PRACTICE
1.Mobile Nursing-
Mobile nursing is a
service agency that
provides home teaching
and care for patients
with varied needs and
health problems.

6. Beneficiaries of
Mobile Nursing
Patients discharged early from
hospitals.
Patients suffering from chronic
and acute medical problems.
Surgical patients.
Patients requiring I.V. therapy.
The elderly
Respiratory patients.
The seriously ill.
Patients in need of medication
management (including pain
control)
Hospice concept
Ventilator dependent
Assistance with bathing,
dressing, meals,
transportation, light
housekeeping

7. Space Nursing
Space Nursing provides a forum for
the discussion and exploration of
issues related to nursing in space
and its impact upon the
understanding of earth bound
nursing through conference
participation.
Functions of Space Nursing:-
Evaluate emergency plans.
Use of medications in space.
Telemedicine opportunities.
Performing surgery in space.
Developing a condition database
to evaluate the risk of certain
accidents or illness during a flight.

8. Forensic Nurse
Forensic Nurses help
investigate crimes like sexual
and physical assault, and
accidental death. They are
trained in medical evidence
collection and the criminal
justice system.

9. Genetics
nursing
• Genetics nursing is
a nursing specialty that focuses
on providing genetic healthcare
to patients.
• Genetics and genomics are
fundamental to
the nursing practice because
the basis of genetics can
recognize individuals at risk for
certain illnesses and diseases,
identify the risks of certain
disease or illnesses when
conceiving children, facilitate
drug dosage or selection for
certain illnesses or specific
patients.

10. Robotic
Nursing
• Robotic nurses that will help
administer care and support to
people in hospitals, care
facilities, and homes.
We believe robotics can play a
role in assisting nurses to
complete their daily tasks in order
to provide better healthcare.
• Robot Nurses –
Robotic care for an old age
More accurate than a human
Robots could do the heavy lifting
Dangers and physical concerns
Robot intimacy (good and bad)

11. Trends towards
Future in Nursing
Research

12. Trends
towards
Future in
Nursing
Research
• The future of nursing research
will be to promote excellence
in nursing science and
practice. Future nurses will
intensify their research skills
and use those skills to address
emerging issues of importance
to the profession and the
patients.

13. Trends towards Future in
Nursing Research
More focus on
Evidence Based
Research
Increased focus
on systematic
reviews
Increased
emphasis on
Metaanalysis
Translational
Research
Multiple- site
Research
Strong
Interdisciplinary
Research
Expanded
dissemination
of Research
Increased
visibility of
Research
Online
Research

14. Evidence Based
Research
• Well implemented
EVIDENCE-BASED research
have helped to improve
Quality care in Nursing.
• Examples:EVIDENCE-
BASED
INFECTIONCONTROL
POLICIES have helped to
reduce hospital acquired
infections
• Nurses follow evidence-
based practice in nursing
when it comes to giving
oxygen to patients with
COPD.

15. Increased focus on systematic
reviews
• Systematic reviews aim to
identify, evaluate, and
summarize the findings of
all relevant individual
studies over a health-
related issue, thereby
making the available
evidence more accessible
to decision makers.
• Example- "Strategies to
Manage the Behavioural
Symptoms Associated With
Alzheimer's Disease."

16. Increased emphasis
on Meta-analysis
• A meta-analysis is a statistical
analysis that combines the
results of multiple scientific
studies. Meta-analysis can be
performed when there are
multiple scientific studies
addressing the same question,
with each individual study
reporting measurements that
are expected to have some
degree of error.
• Example- Different studies
show contradictory and varying
effects of “Vitamin C” on human
health.

18. Translational Research

19. Multiple- site Research
• Multiple-site studies are more likely to
change nursing practice in critical care. They allow
for larger sample size, broader sampling, faster
accrual rates, and meaningful subgroup analyses.

20. Strong
Interdisciplinary
Research

21. Expanded
dissemination
of Research

22. Increased visibility of Research

24. ADVANTAGES
OF ONLINE
RESEARCH
Access to
data
across the
globe
Minimum
investment
of time and
resources
Central
pool of
facts and
figures
Capable
tool for
collecting
information

25. DIGITAL
TECHNOLOGIES
IN NURSING
RESEARCH
Online Research
Data Handling
Online Data collection
Digital data management
Big Data

26. Futuristic
Nursing
Education

27. Futuristic
Nursing
Education
• Transitions today…..
• • Chalkboards have
transitioned to SMART
boards
• • Reading out of textbooks
to reading leveled readers
• • Paper and pencil to
digital learning and
teaching digital
"citizenship"

28. Digital Learning
Books with CD
Smart class rooms
E-books
Smart Board
Virtual learning

29. Technology
in Nursing
Education
Online Education
Pexa Lite Exam software
Google class room
Zoom teaching
Simulated environments
Virtual patient simulation
Human patient simulation
Task trainer
Standardized patients
Social Media
Mobile Technology

30. Learning Management system
• Online education operates
through a Learning
Management System (LMS).
• These software programs
handle all facets of the e-
learning process, including
delivering content, handling
registration for courses, and
tracking and reporting.

31. Simulated
Practice
• Simulation learning is the process
where trainees practise a procedure or
routine in a simulated
learning environment (SLE) before
treating actual patients. These
environments use different scenarios
and equipment, and vary in realism

32. PROS AND CONS OF
TECHNOLOGY IN NURSING
PROS
 Improves patient safety and
patient care
 Time-saving for nurses
 Cost-savings investment for
healthcare facility
 Establishes “Best Practices”
evidence-based nursing
 Enables on/offsite skills-
building and increased
proficiency
 Response to nursing
shortage
CONS
• Dehumanizes patient care
• Not viewed as time-saving
by all nurses
• Generational gaps in
learning and learning styles
• May be perceived as
replacing critical
thinking/problem-solving
skills
• Potential for breaches in
confidentiality.

33. Future of
Nurses:
Super Heroes
aided by
Technology

34. Future of
Nurses:
Super
Heroes
aided by
Technology
• Nurses are magic. They are
the thousand-handed gods and
goddesses in any hospital and
medical practice.
• They assist doctors with
medical procedures, prepare
patients for surgeries, provide
post-operative care, check vital
signs, draw blood, give
medications, check IV’s, carry
out administrative duties,
cooperate with physicians in
rehabilitation and prevention
tasks, help bedridden patients
maintain their hygiene, distribute
hospital food, clean and disinfect
medical devices.

35. 1. With robotics to cut
back on monotonous
tasks
Medication management,
disinfection, carrying
medical devices from A
to B, lifting bedridden
patients, navigating
and greeting patients
and relatives in the
hospital are all tasks
that robots could
support.

36. Robotics
• The robust TUG robot and the
streamlined RoboCourier make the in-hospital transport
of medical devices, drugs, laboratory specimens or
sensitive supplies easier.
• They can carry around a multitude of racks, carts or
bins working around the clock. Both could enable
nurses to spend more times with their patients instead
of running up and down the building floors.

37. Robotics
The Xenex Robot might help nurses
keep up the highest level of
hygiene. It allows for fast and
effective systematic disinfection of
any space within a healthcare
facility.
The bear-shaped RoBear robot can lift
and move patients in and out of
bed into wheelchairs, help patients
stand, and turn them to prevent
bed sores.

38. 2. With telemedicine to reach
isolated communities
• Practice of counselling
patients over the phone is
the most effective tool to
treat minor illnesses,
reaching remote patients, or
in cases when the patient is
unable to leave their home
due to illness or
transportation issues.

39. • Telehealth nursing care is possible both in emergency and non-
emergency situations.
• Nurses can monitor a patient’s oxygen levels, heart rate,
respiration, blood glucose and more. In non-emergency situations,
nurses can get their patients’ blood pressure readings or glucose
readings, for instance. They can also instruct patients as to how to
dress a wound or treat a minor burn.

40. 3. Explaining
complicated
medical language
with 3D printing
• Nurses who are responsible for
explaining medical procedures and
critical aftercare to patients may find
that 3-D printers give them access to
tools that significantly improve the
process.
• An exact model of body parts and
organs can serve as an invaluable
tool for enhancing communications
between patients and the caregivers
who serve them.

41. 4. Portable
diagnostics for
improved patient
care
• The appearance of pocket-sized,
user-friendly and portable
diagnostic devices make it easier
and faster for nurses to care for
a patient.
• Portable ultrasonography can
reduce the frequency of urinary
catheterization, help guide
insertion of peripheral IV lines,
minimizes radiation exposure
during medical imaging, and
overall saves time and fastens
the diagnostic procedure.

42. 5. Drawing
blood with
technology
Hand-held vein scanners
use AR technology to
make both nurses’ and
patients’ lives easier.
For example, AccuVein
projects the veins of
patients over the skin via
AR showing nurses and
doctors where the
capillaries are.

43. 6.With
Artificial
Intelligence
against
cumbersome
tasks
• Artificial Intelligence has the
potential to highly optimize
processes in hospitals, cut
down on administrative
duties or decrease the
frequency of repetitive
phenomena based on
analyzing vast data sets,
connecting the dots and
making predictions. By
enhancing efficiency, A.I. will
immensely benefit nurses.

44. 7. With virtual reality for
education and alleviating
pain
Virtual simulations could support the
training phase of nurses, preparing
them for emergency situations such
as a cardiac arrest.
To train employees on procedures
such as cardiopulmonary
resuscitation, nasal gastric tube
insertion, starting an IV, wound care
and others. They may use a similar
platform as Virtual Education
Systems’ VR training systems; new
nurses can train with interactive
patients in-hospital simulations
making critical decisions in real-
time.

45. 8.Small robots or
digital pills for better
medication
management
• they help better organize
patient pathways, make
medication management
more efficient, help in
emergency situations or
with first aid, or offer a
solution for simpler
medical issues.

46. 9. Electronic
Health
Records
• Electronic health
records allow nursing
experts to document
care provided to
patients, and retrieve
information that can
help prioritize care.

47. 10. Smart TV TVs with smart
technology can now
provide information
on upcoming
treatments and
deliver instructions
for medication or
post-discharge
care.

48. Automated
IV Pumps
• It control the dosages
and drips given to
patients.
• Software and medical
tech allows nurses to
change the drip amounts
and medication doses so
patients aren’t waiting for
changes.

49. Smart beds
• Smart bed technology
gives nurses a constant
monitor in a room that
provides them with
regular updates and
communications on a
patient’s activities.
• Nurses also spend less
time coming in and
adjusting supplies and
medical equipment

50. Tele-health and Apps

51. Patient and Staff
Identification Systems
• Bar codes, wristbands and
radio frequency
identification (RFID), all
work to track and identify
patients in an effort to
reduce errors while also
keeping the hospital
population safe.

52. Is the future about
smart alarms?
• A smart alarm
technology could
combat the problem by
better monitoring a
variety of patient vital
signs all through one
system, including blood
pressure, pulse rate,
etc.

53. Both
nursing
jobs and
robots will
stay
• Nurses could benefit a lot
from technology as it might
make their tasks less
cumbersome, more creative
and it might free up some of
their time.
• If Nurses don’t start
understanding this
technology and participating
in its development and
implementation, the
profession and the best
interests of patients will
suffer.

54. CONCLUSION
• Being a nurse is a highly demanding,
but genuinely fulfilling job with the
chance to touch many people’s lives.
• As it requires the core of what
makes us human – paying attention,
being empathetic and caring -, it will
never be replaced by technology.
• However, innovations can relieve
nurses of the burden of many
monotonous and repetitive tasks.

55. Thank
you