Nursing is a profession that faces significant changes, mainly because of technological advancement gradient. According to researchers, the nursing education curriculum’s design demands incorporating a dynamic perspective that appreciates the contribution of technology advancement (Delaune et al., 2019). In this case, it is essential to determine technological advancements that render the profound solution base to an effective treatment plan among the patients (World Health Organization, 2017).
One of the concepts is an effective healthcare system that enhances effective treatment. Another nursing concept that should be incorporated during the development process of the curriculum is the contribution of technology in determining the best treatment plan for patients. The third nursing concept is the significance of integrating nurses’ well-being in the nursing practise to reduce the rate of early retirement due to mental illness. Nursing practice is an integral ideology that engulfs the essence of integrating individual well-being and the core environmental factors such as health initiatives. The purpose of this study entails evaluating the different nursing concepts that significantly contribute to the advancement of the nursing curriculum and quality education.
An effective treatment plan relies on the integration of the factors that influence human health and recovery system. An excellent example of a mainframe to incorporate during the curriculum’s designing and development is the behavioral system model. The model is a theoretical construct that associates the healing process with integrated social and physical values. In research, Dorothy Johnson’s theoretical construct is a justification for the factors that influence an individual’s psychological, mental, and physical healthiness (Alexander et al., 2020). The nursing practice should essentially optimize observing patient behavior and the relative characteristics under the conceptual framework of the nursing metaparadigm. The proper alignment of the individual action traits prevents illness. The behavioral system consists of at least seven factors.
These elements include aggressive, ingestive, affiliative, achievement, dependency, sexual, and eliminative (Roux, 2017). The behavioral factors’ functionality lies in the spectrum of a nurturing environment, growth stimulators, and protection from negative influences. Notably, an individual’s health encompasses attaining an optimum intersection between the elements and the values of the behavioral system despite the dynamism across the human race.
The behavioral system highly manipulates the qualities of the human caring theory that depicts the nursing metaparadigm. An individual’s growth and development depend on exposure to different types of values. One of the critical outliers is the person that leads to the pillar of dependence and affiliation. According to the behavioral system, the dependent and affiliate values attain prominence based on an individual’s commitment to focus on the positive values of behavior either mentally or physically (DeLaune et al., 2019).
Another mainframe is the environment, whose influence on the behavioral system is ingestive and eliminative. It is the individual’s responsibility to seek environmental exposure that positively affects the ingestive and eliminative qualities. Finally, health and nursing practise positively influence the achievements, sexuality, and aggressiveness of an individual. Achievements, aggressiveness, and sexuality depend on a person’s health level. The nursing metaparadigm offers an in-depth foresight to the functional aspect of the behavioral system.
The conceptual values in curriculum development encompass the environment, person, nursing practice, and health. According to Roux (2017), these factors positively influence the spiritual essence of an individual. The theoretical construct positively relates to Dorothy Johnson’s argument about nursing (Alexander et al., 2020). Johnson significantly utilizes the concepts to promote the healthiness of an individual. An excellent example is the use of Johnson’s ideas to promote community-based care for people living with HIV and AIDS. Alexander et al. (2020) postulate that integrating the behavioral system with the healing and therapy process positively impacts society’s welfare.
The main reason lies in configuring the core behavioral elements that enhance the recovery process, such as a peaceful and supportive society. The conceptual values of the nursing curriculum form the foundation of the behavioral system that impacts an individual’s healthiness.
In a different spectrum, the human caring concept observes the nurse’s spiritual healthiness and the patient. On the one hand, the human caring concept shows the interdependence between human health and self-actualization. On the other hand, Johnson’s behavioral system focuses on balancing an individual’s behavioral traits and the spiritual being. According to Karkhah et al. (2020), incorporating the behavioral system in the hematoma’s treatment procedure speeds the recovery. The researchers argue that the behavioral system enlightens the nurses upon the best and sustainable treatment to avoid prolonging the healing process and the patient’s suffering (Karkhah et al., 2020).
Different patients uphold diverse behavioral traits and features hence the importance of diversifying the construct of the treatment plan. The utilization of the behavioral system renders the development of practical nursing care for the patients. In this case, nursing care refers to modifying the core values of the behavioral system and the metaparadigm of a person, that is, environment, nursing practice, and health.
The global health initiative for the aging is a concept that profoundly contributes to the elevation of the nursing curriculum’s effectiveness. It is essential to integrate the essence of healthy aging in the nursing curriculum mainly because of the impact on attaining the 2030 sustainable development goals. According to the World Health Organization (2017), the best treatment plan for the elderly includes the provision of basic needs and proper attention to all members of the global community. The concept of global health initiative for the elderly enshrines dynamic elements such as promoting equity in the distribution of products and services.
The effective nursing practice fosters change and increases healthy living standards among the community members. The concept is integrated into the nursing curriculum under the mainframe of promoting sustainable practice such as proper dieting preference over medical prescriptions. Primarily, an interplay of the sustainable treatment for the elderly is a concept that improves the quality of nursing studies due to the acknowledgment of the aging population and the crucial health concerns.
The incorporation of information and communication technology in the healthcare department presents a dynamic interaction between professionals and patients. On the one hand, the technology boosts the level of interactions despite the location of the individuals. An excellent example is the implementation of a healthcare plan that focuses on enhancing home-based care. Over the decades, home-based care has proved necessary for most patients to reduce the congestion and costs of treatment. Further, the patients get the opportunity to interact with their relatives during the treatment.
However, it proved a challenge without using technology, mainly because of the frequent communication necessary for treatments with healthcare professionals’ consultation. In a different spectrum, technology positively influences interprofessional relationships while enhancing a profound loophole in communication flow (Soubhi, 2017). In my field of profession, one of the significant challenges that involve interprofessional collaboration involves the fragmentation of the working progress. Although technology promotes an advanced level of patient care, it is an element that interferes with cross-industry relationships through fragmentation of the working progress.
Technology plays a vital role in boosting the healthcare service delivery system, mainly because of integrating dynamic processes. However, over the decades, the organizational change fell short of the crucial factor encompassing all stakeholders’ involvement in the process. During patient care, different healthcare professionals engage the patient for effective treatment. In this case, most professionals use technology to interact and determine the fundamental approaches for treatment and follow-up. Nevertheless, the technology incorporation disorients the professionals based on the physical contact and the roles and responsibilities of the individuals.
On the one hand, it is the responsibility of the professionals to familiarise themselves with the technology. On the other hand, the healthcare professionals utilize substantial time learning technological use hence derailing in catching up with the other team. As a result, the communication flow becomes ineffective due to the lack of participation of all stakeholders. The fragmentation of the working progress fosters inefficient healthcare service delivery, contrary to the objective of technological use in medicine and pharmacy (Soubhi, 2017). The working progress fragmentation solution enshrines the intense use of interactive interprofessional programs that encompass training in the nursing practice.
In conclusion, effective nursing education encompasses the integration of emerging trends with nursing practice. The key emerging trends include technological advancement and human care for both the nurses and the patients’ treatment. The three main concepts to integrate into the nursing curriculum enshrine the behavioral system model, human caring concept, and the health sustainable development goals. The implementation of the ideal health strategies, namely, the conceptual frameworks enhances the evolution of healthcare along the gradient of technological advancement.
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