With increased demand for quality and safe nursing care, the health care system is currently focusing on the quality of training of student nurses. Nursing education has therefore shifted from the conventional concepts where nurses were perceived to be assistants to physicians to a new model where student nurses are equipped with sufficient scientific knowledge enabling them to use evidence-based approaches in decision-making. In my baccalaureate degree education through ISU, an evidence-based approach was one of the key areas of focus, which I credit to having prepared me to practice according to the expectations of a bachelor’s prepared nurse. Moreover, my baccalaureate degree education through ISU laid emphasis on cultural sensitivity and cultural awareness. This is owing to the fact that the world is currently globalized, which makes it essential for a nurse practitioner to be able to understand, acknowledge, and appreciate cultural differences among the patients as well as attend to the unique cultural needs of the patients. Additionally, my education in ISU impacted me with …show more content…
This will ensure that future nursing students will be technologically prepared to handle the technological needs of the changing world. Even as today, most healthcare institutions have embraced the use of technology in keeping patients records and medical information, hence is important that nurses are not left behind. Moreover, I would recommend a shared nursing and medical education as a way of improving care delivery by improving the quality of interdisciplinary collaboration. Additionally, it would be important for future nursing education to focus more on reflective nursing as a way of improving the quality of care provided to the patients (Bulman & Schutz,