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Work-Life Balance - Creating &Sustaining Connections in a ComplexWorld
Professor Linda J Kristjanson
Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Research &Development
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What work-life balance is not:
It is not about being perfect It is not about being right It is not about being clever or having all
the answers
It is not about being a superwoman orsuperman
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Work-Life Balance
About staying connectedto my self, to
my values, to the relationships I create
along the wayand to work and actions
that are meaningful.
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Balance
About living authentically Doing work that feels intrinsically rewarding
What matters is that the person undertakeshis/her work with integrity
Balance also requires us to pay attention to ourconnections to family, to friends, to our self
Remembering to breath
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Balance
When I take time to take care of my ownhealth, my needs for rest, exercise, giving
my body good foodmaking time for thepeople I love
Remembering that the work I do is
importantbut it is not my whole life I keep my balance and my connections to
others replenish and sustain me.
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My Background and Work
Canada
Influence of parents
Politics and social
contribution
Education andinternational work
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Growing up in this family taught me:
it was pure luck that I grew up in the family Idid with the privileges of education andopportunity
we don't get to choose our parents, no one religion or culture or nation has the
corner on truth,
underneath our skin, we are more similar thandifferent and that we are all part of an interconnected web of
co-existence.
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Nursing
Family influenceNurses who led the way
Values matchWitches, Midwives and Nurses Outlines struggles women have faced in
attempting to comfort, health and seekeducation to practice as healthprofessionals
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Women as Healers
1400s - source of healing was religious men messengers of God (priests)
women who were healers were thereforewitches
ergo - burn them
Science education and universitymaledomain
Nurses were poorly educated,underprivileged backgrounds
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Nursing Development
Florence Nightingale helped to elevate Nursing
"No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any otherdefinition of what a nurse should be than this - 'devoted
and obedient.' This definition would do just as well for aporter. It might even do so for a horse. It will not do fora nurse (1859).
Notes on Nursingprovided an understanding of
hygiene, environmental health factors, healing, nutrition,and psychological well-being
1850 - noted for her contributions to nursing researchthrough her diligent collection of data and statistical
analysis
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Nursing as a Profession
Practice according to Nursing Act Most often at the patient's bedside 24 hours/day Make astute observations, triage patients in
emergency departments, provide care to
individuals with increasing complex healthproblems, and employ more technically complexprocedures than ever before
Manage finite health care resources
Nurse in hospitals, community clinics, people'shomes, on oil rigs, in factories, in refugeecamps, in prisons and in war zones
Need to be well educated, well remunerated andrecognised for the valuable work they do
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Nurses leading the way
International Society of Nurses in CancerCarepalliative care service run by Jewishand Arab nurses in Israel
Nurses in Brazil developed a serve to helpwomen with breast cancer and theirfamiliesAcolhimento
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Palliative Care
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DVC Role
fortunate to work with talented, passionatepeople who are undertaking research thatmatters and educating the next generation ofresearchers and science will contribute solutionsto world problems.
Professor Peter Newman, Svetha Venkatesh,
Robert Amin, Moyez Jiwa, Vishnu Pareek, TonyOwen, Anna Heitz, and Dani Stehlik areexamples.
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Do I manage to achieve a worklife balance?
Constant conversation with myself
Over function at home
Over function at work
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Lessons Learned (and relearned)
Put your health first - Taking care of you isespecially important when life gets hectic
Let go of perfectionit is the enemy of good,will wear you out and make you inpatient withothers
Let go of your arrogance that you can do it alland ask for help
Look for the joke
Pay attention to the people in your lives
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