The Importance of Nursing Education for Bangladeshi Nursing Teachers

Abstract

Can we take the purpose of nurse education for granted, and, more importantly, should we? That is the issue at stake in this paper. The question of purpose is absent in the nursing literature; our aim here is to urge that it not be overlooked by demonstrating its importance to the future of nursing. The nursing profession in Bangladesh has undergone a remarkable development over the recent years.  But nursing teachers still faces different types of challenges. The reasons for the contradiction have become a complex interaction between socioeconomic and cultural factors, which are related to the conflicts between British curriculum, with an emphasis on basic care activities, social and gender norms, and discrimination against nurses at educational institutions. This paper aims to look at nurses’ views about nursing care and their profession, to depict how nursing education has been an empowering tool, and to analyze how nurses’ socioeconomic background, personal experiences and life stories have influenced their professional careers. Therefore, nursing education is found to empower nursing teachers in terms of knowledge, independence, and self-realization.