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Future of Nursing
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Future of Nursing
Aging Population
Population
- "2014, 46.2 million Americans were over age 65 years. By 2040, 21.7% of the American population is expected to be over the age of 65 years" - The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- Concerns face nursing as a profession as it continues to try and meet the demands of our increasing population with multiple comorbidities
- With the increasing need of registered nurses, the IOM has put forward a method that includes expanding the amount of care providers that specialize in geriatrics.
Heart Disease & Obesity
Comorbidities
- Along with an aging population, comes forth the comorbidities with obesity and heart disease being two of the biggest culprits in mortality rates.
- As we continue to live to live a much more sedentary lifestyle with easy access to high - caloric foods the numbers in obesity and the disease processes obesity exacerbates continue to rise (Leddy et al., 2018).
Prevention
As professionals nurses can provide interventions of prevention through education and providing community resources, but the patient must also be willing to participate in their plan of care and have a desire to change.
Nursing Shortage
Shortage
Our current pandemic situation has changed the nursing profession drastically in a little over a year and a half. With the known nursing shortage already in place, and our populations living longer, I predict that this factor will also continue to contribute to the scarcity of nurses.
The Aging Nurse
- As nurses continue to age and retire quicker than student nurses are graduating, our nursing profession can soon begin to struggle much more than it is now in present time.
- The future of nursing depends on today’s nurses to advocate for our profession and recruit new nurses, and encourage LVNs, and ADNs to continue to further their education in nursing practice. I am hopeful that despite the challenges nurses and nursing profession faces, we will see it through, and continue to strive to a future of evidence – based practice research.
Leddy, S., Hood, L. J., & Pepper, J. M. (2018). Leddy and Pepper's professional nursing|leddy and Pepper's conceptual bases of professional nursing. Wolters Kluwer.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration on Aging. (2016). Aging statistics. Retrieved from http://www.aoa.gov/Aging_Statistics/. Accessed July 3, 2016.
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