08/01/08 13:45:10
The Nursing Profession is still under an evolution phase,
a phase of receding and evolving new paradigms.
The last decade and the arrival of the new millennium set up a new era of Nursing Knowledge,
the Socialization Era of Nursing science. Thus, the 21st century opened with monumental
changes for the nursing profession with a graying nursing profession,
a shortage of practicing nurses, an increasing demand for nurses,
fewer nursing faculty, and a rapidly changing global healthcare arena.
For nurses to response to the needs of the rapidly changing global healthcare
arena individuals must be socialized into the nursing profession.
The profession of nursing recognizes socialization into a discipline is guided by
theories use of language, identification of concepts, and definition of relationships,
structured ideas, and facilitation of disciplined inquiry, practice and communication,
as well as predicting outcome of nursing practice.