Nursing education in the path of globalization: Promotion or challenge?

نویسندگان

1 Department of Medical‑Surgical Nursing, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran

2 Department of Critical Care Nursing, Nursing Care Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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چکیده

Globalization has been attracted by great literature and papers of many disciplines in recent years.Although globalization has considerable social, political, and economic effects, it has turned to animportant challenge in health‑care systems. Nursing, as the largest part of the health system inthe world, has also been affected by globalization. The purpose of the present paper is to critiqueglobalization and its impacts on the nursing profession. This review article was conducted by searchingfor reliable internet resources in the English language on the impact of globalization on nursing.Published articles were searched until 2018, and related articles were extracted in three stages:1‑selection of articles by reading abstract, 2‑selection with an overview of the text, and 3‑selectionwith a full review of the article’s text. According to the literature of globalization, we categorize anddiscuss the nursing areas that are affected by globalization in nine areas: global nursing development,nurses emigration,information interchange and interactions in nursing, higher education in nursing,professional territory, nursing specialization, professional ethics, management and supervision, andprofessional independence. The intensity of globalization effects on the nursing profession has notbeen the same in all societies, and factors such as compliance of society, culture, and technologyare among the most important factors that affect it. Globalization is an inevitable process and bringswith itself many prominent promotions such as global nursing development and important challengessuch as nursing emigration and ethical issues.