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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
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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)
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Paradox (ii)• High Tech & Complementary
Approaches
• Educated, Assertive Patients & Less Informed
• Blurring Boundaries & Separate Professions
• Dominance of Hospital & Care Closer to Home
Adapted from Warner et al (1998)
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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
Adapted from Warner et al (1998)
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The Burden of tomorrow
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Implication 2050?
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China’s past and future population pyramid
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Globalization
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Disasters & Climate Change
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Technology
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Pillars
• Professional Practice
• Regulation
• Socio-Economic Welfare
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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
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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
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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
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“What shapes the future is not what we have in common but the
interplay of our differences.”
SHELL 2001 GLOBAL SCENARIOS
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