NURSING TRENDS IN

ST
THE 21 CENTURY
Learning and Teaching Trends in the
21st Century

• Changing nature of students

• Changing nature of the collegiate
experience
• Changing understanding of how students
learn
• Changing nature of teaching
• Changing nature of outcomes assessment
 1. Changing nature of students

 Increased diversity in age, SES, gender,

race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, learning and
physical ability
 "Such heterogeneity requires educational
communities to be open to difference, as well
as new and varied pedagogies and
assumptions about levels of preparation,
learning styles, and available time for study"
2.Changing nature of the collegiate
experience

 Varying approaches to higher education

 More part-time enrolments
 More transfers among institutions
 Distance learning
 Limited economic resources
 Educational theories about student learning have
promoted more individualized and active participation on
the part of students, which are reflected in new teaching
methodologies and assessments.
3. Changing understanding of how
students learn

 Holistic views of learning

 Multiple intelligence
 Learning styles
 Varied sources of influence on student's
learning
 Students as active participants
4. Changing nature of teaching

 Facilitator of student learning

 New culture of teaching and learning
 Information technology, long distance
education
 "Traditional transmission of knowledge from
teacher to student is no longer sufficient for
an educated citizenry"
 5.Changing nature of outcomes
assessment

 "Assessing knowledge gains will no

longer be sufficient. Outcomes in critical
thinking, cultural understanding,
empathy, citizenship, and social
responsibility will also be important."
(Austin, 1996)
From 20th century nursing into the
21st century

 20th Century of Nursing – “doing for others”

 80% of the time, nurses work was with the sick or
disadvantaged. Much of the activity of caring was “late
stage” caring. Here, persons were already sick or
disadvantaged and needed to move through their
experience, get well, or accommodate their limitation.
There was a much stronger dependency relationship
between nurse and patient because, 9 times out of 10, of
the condition and the needs of those nurses served.
 Much of the frame of reference and content
of education of the basic practitioners was
around those alterations from the norm and
the clinical focus was on re-establishing the
normative or “fixing” the problem so persons
could get back to the business of their lives.
This is no longer the foundation for the future
of nursing practice or of health service.
 21st century: whole foundations of
health care are being shaken

 Technology is taking service to new heights of

portability: less invasive, short-term, and with
greater impact on both the length and quality of
life. Along with portability is the immediately
emerging impact of genomics/proteinomics with
all that implies for how life processes will be dealt
with, when they will be addressed, and the
techniques and technologies that will be used to
treat persons.
 These changes in teaching and learning have
made the teaching/learning experience both
more dynamic and more complex. That is a
part of what you help us with by providing
your preceptor skills to help the students
participate in more active participative
learning.
 Time-based nursing care with the activities of
bathing, treating, changing, feeding, intervening,
drugging, and discharging are quickly becoming
historic references to an age of practice that no
longer exists. Now the challenge for nursing
practice skills relates more to taking on the
activities of accessing, informing, guiding,
teaching, counselling, typing, and linking.
 REFERENCES

 Learning and Teaching Trends in the 21st Century

(2018),University of Minessota, Retrieved
from:https://www.nursing.umn.edu/outreach/clinical-
preceptors/general-preceptor-information/learning-
and-teaching-trends-21st-century
 Nursing Outlook (2018), Retrieved from:
https://www.nursingoutlook.org/article/S0029-
6554(01)57254-1/fulltext