de and outside hospitals.
Styles (1995) goes on to say that education is still the key to nursingÆs evolutionary progress as a profession and the fulfillment of nursesÆ multiple roles in primary health care. Besides illness prevention, health promotion and community-based care, nursing curricula in the future will put more emphasis on health care economics to prepare nurses with the knowledge they will need to assist in implementing cost-effective and quality patient care. Courses in the future will include health policy and planning so that nurses can work more effectively with decision-makers and ensure that the quality of care is not sacrificed when health services are reduced.
Nurses must adjust to a fast-changing medical technology. The computer-based patient record-keeping systems will significantly change nursing practice, also. To meet these challenges, the nurse must not only becoming highly skilled in the use of t
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