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In my opinion, I think that most Americans take their healthcare delivery system for granted. I know that I took it for granted myself. One day my mother was describing to me about her experience that she had at a hospital in Russia while she was pregnant with me. I was shocked to hear that during the night the staff would leave and only one nurse would be left on duty for the entire ward. Nothing would be done until the staff and doctors returned early in the morning. My mother explained to me how poor the healthcare delivery system was in her country and how lucky I was to have my healthcare in the United States and even more privileged to work towards a career in the field. Of course, our healthcare delivery system is not perfect but we have our advantages and disadvantages compared to other countries. I decided to look into the issue of nursing around the world to examine the differences and commonalities we share. This paper will develop awareness of nursing practiced in 5 countries- Australia, Japan, Zimbabwe, Great Britain, and Israel. Each country presents similar yet different issues such as the levels of education for nursing practice with an increase towards higher degrees, standards for credentialing to keep practice safe, fewer male nurses, the use of a universal model to practice nursing, and the nursing shortage offset by the increase of geriatric care. First, take the view of nursing practiced in Australia. In the first article, by Jane Stein-Parbury (2000), emphasis is placed on the fact that even though nursing in Australia has been influenced strongly by the British nursing tradition, the apprenticeship style of nurse education; it has been traded in for preparation for registered nursing in the higher level of education. The new change in nursing education, in which nurses just stood by the physician to observe, provided a prominent future for Australian nurses to gain access to a diverse branch of nursing in a university (Stein-Parbury, 2000). Conceptualisation of nursing in Australia has been influenced not only by British traditions, but also by advancements made in the United States. Nursing students are taught upon the principles and definitions of nursing developed by Virginia Henderson (Stein-Parbury, 2000). She defined nursing as "assisting individuals to gain independence in relation to the performance of activities contributing to health or its recovery" (Stein-Parbury, 2000, p1). The health care system in Australia is based on the principle of universal access to health care (Stein-Parbury, 2000).
Approximate Word count = 1637
Approximate Pages = 6.5
(250 words per page double spaced)
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