PN: LU 8 - CURRENT & EMERGING NURSING RELATED ISSUES

• What changes does nurses faces nowdays?

  1. Extensive or expanding roles of nurses
  2. IT and Technology advancement
  3. Global Nursing
  4. Staff shortage
  5. Meeting Patient expectations
  6. long working hours
  7. workplace violence
• Emerging nurses related issues and its strategies in Malaysia

  • Tertiary Education
  • Increasing Complex Medical Technologies
  • Nursing Image
  • Emerging & Reemerging infectious disease
• Tertiary Education


  1. Individual - motivate

  2. Organisation - strengthen the nursing education, recruit nursing scholars and offer contemporary tertiary education for nurses in Malaysia & More accessible

  3. Policies - Provide platform for nurses' career development
• Increasing Complex Medical Technologies

  1. Individual - continued expanding their knowledge and expertise

  2. Organisation - Prepare and support health professionals

  3. Policies - reinforce legal and safety perspectives oh medical technologies can be utilised to improve outcomes and overall quality of care
• Nursing Image, Emerging & Reemerging infectious disease

  1. Individual - strengthening basic and applied research

  2. Organisation - Establish guidelines and ethics for nurses

  3. Policies - Maintaining & developing the national & international scientific expertise