Review Article
Year: 2022 | Month: July-September | Volume: 7 | Issue: 3 | Pages: 9-13
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijshr.20220703
Challenges of Nursing Education in India
Preksha
Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecological Nursing, T. John College of Nursing, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
ABSTRACT
Healthcare industry in India is growing at a rapid pace. Both Government and the private sector have responded with significant investments in infrastructure and institutional mechanisms resulting in healthcare becoming one of the largest sectors. Nurses in India forms the huge segment of healthcare service and works as a backbone of hospital. Strengthening the nursing workforce in India is a need of the hour to provide holistic care to the patient and also render updated knowledge and skills to budding nurses. To make the nursing sector strong, it is suggested to enhance the quality of nursing education. In past few years, our world is exploded with advanced techniques and machinery. The nurses who are working in clinical set-up are expected to pace up with the new technologies and use them in the care of their patients. The aim of this paper is to put a light on the challenges of nursing education in India and strategies to overcome it in coming decades. The paper put forward the importance of Entrance exams to enter the nursing course, streamlining the nursing education, emphasis of research, requirement of demand and supply chain of nurses, importance of parent hospital, applying the knowledge of adult education to deal with Gen-Z in today’s time, etc. The paper also tells the importance of Dual role of a nurse as tutor in a nursing institute and clinical nurse in the hospital to provide updated knowledge to their students about latest healthcare technologies and also aims to provide a roadmap to restore the prestigious position the nursing profession deserves in India.
Keywords: Challenges, Strengthening, nursing profession, Gen-Z, Dual-role, nursing education