Future of Nursing from an International Perspective

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Future of Nursing from an International Perspective

David C. BentonChief Executive Officer

International Council of NursesSouth Pacific Nurses Forum

Melbourne, Australia19 November 2012


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• The Paradox of the Present

• The Trends and Challenges of Tomorrow

• The Future of Our Profession– Professional Practice– Regulation– Socio-economic welfare


Archimedes - 220 BC

Mechanics Magazine published in in 1824


Paradox (i)

• More Money & continued scarcity of resources

• Emphasis on Prevention & Demand for Cure

• Centralisation & growing local diversity

• Reliance on Professionalism & Lay Assertiveness

Adapted from Warner et al (1998)


Paradox (ii)• High Tech & Complementary

Approaches

• Educated, Assertive Patients & Less Informed

• Blurring Boundaries & Separate Professions

• Dominance of Hospital & Care Closer to Home



Paradox (iii)

• High Tech Interventions & Humanistic Care

• Diseases of Old Age & Demands of The Young

• Moral Certainties & New Horizons

• The Core of Nursing & Social Change



The Burden of tomorrow


Implication 2050?


China’s past and future population pyramid


Globalization


Disasters & Climate Change


Technology



Pillars

• Professional Practice

• Regulation

• Socio-Economic Welfare


Professional Practice

• Inter-professional team based practice

• Technology, connects and extends practice– Virtual services and communities of practice

• Increase in nurse entrepreneurs – Health and Social Care– Wellbeing and health improvement


Regulation

• BSN is base qualification for RN

• MSN is base qualification for Advanced Practice

• Continuing Competence is a dynamic process

• Nursing rather than the Nurse to become the focus of regulation


Socio-Economic Welfare• Retirement Age Will Increase

– Nurses as part of care environment design

• NNAs and Unions embrace and lead the development of practice continuum

• Workload planning, outcomes & PPE measurement informed by real time systems

• Trade agreements and migration the focus for corporate business


“What shapes the future is not what we have in common but the

interplay of our differences.”

SHELL 2001 GLOBAL SCENARIOS


Just in Case You Want to Move the World

http://www.starstryder.com/2008/02/18/with-a-lever-i-move-the-earth/

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Future of Nursing from an International Perspective