Identify a trend that impacts on specialty nursing practice and critically analyse this. This trend may be global, national or local. Using the perspectives (or framework by another name), analyse the...

Identify a trend that impacts on specialty nursing practice and critically analyse this. This trend may be global, national or local. Using the perspectives (or framework by another name), analyse the causes of the trend – it may have local, national and/or global causes. For example, the increasing age of the nursing workforce can have global, socio-cultural causes (women wanting to work longer, now socially acceptable for them to do so); increasing presentations to EDs by non-urgent patients can have national, political economic causes (too expensive to go to the GP). I prefer to take emerging technology