Nursing is a surprisingly fast moving industry with new technologies entering from every side. There are new medicines that nurses have to administer, new diseases that nurses have to monitor, and new medical technology that nurses have to learn to use.
As a nurse it is important for you to understand that, though your job requirements and objectives will remain on the whole relatively the same throughout your career, many changes, expected and unexpected, will occur that you will have to learn to adapt to.
For example, if you take a look at the administration of medicine through drip machines (in which there is a pipe that leads directly to the patients vein and medicine is administered on a continual basis), initially drip machines had a different way of setting the dosage (measured in drips per minute) and nowadays there are many computerized/digital drip machines in which you can input a full schedule for the patient.
These changes, like other changes in life, need to be adapted to and understood. If a nurse does not have a complete grasp of how a digital drip machine works then she may be more prone to error and giving the incorrect treatment to a patient which may even result in death (say in the administering of insulin, too much insulin can easily lead to a quick death).
There are going to be more and faster changes in the near future as the nursing shortage worsens new technologies will rise to help nurses do their jobs more efficiently. There are Japanese companies which are making robots which will help nurses and nursing aides to do their job better as well. An Israeli company is making a wearable robotic jacket-like thing which will help nursing aides lift and carry things with much less effort. The future for nursing looks very promising.
